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Political connections and seasoned equity offerings
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posted on 2021-09-16, 09:34 authored by Modestus Nnadi, Ghulam Sorwar, Rasol Eskandari, Amon ChizemaAmon ChizemaThis study examines the impact of political connections on seasoned equity offerings.
Using seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from 2001 to 2018 in the USA, we find that politically
connected issuers enjoy a lower cost of seasoned equity issuance than their non-connected
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counterparts. Our empirical evidence is robust to controls for firm characteristics, corporate
governance features, propensity score matching models, and an instrumental variable approach.
Moreover, connected issuers conducting primary offerings and those operating in high corrupt
states benefitted more from their political connections. Overall, our evidence is consistent with
the view that political connections reduce the cost of raising external capital.
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