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CEO equity-based compensation is designed to reduce the agency problem between top management and shareholders, which should have direct consequences on firm’s capital structure decisions as evidenced by the behaviors of new security issuances. This research paper focuses on the impact on the propensity of issuing new securities by two common CEO equity-based compensations – option compensation and restricted stock compensation. Empirical results show that CEO option compensation yields statistically significant evidences that it will lower firm’s propensity of SEO issuance and debt issuance. However, it has no direct effect on firm’s preferred stock issuance. On the other side, CEO restricted stock compensation has only statistically significant and negative impact on firm’s propensity of SEO issuance. Moreover, CEO option compensation has much higher estimated marginal effects in absolute value on SEO issuance than CEO restricted stock compensation does. | How does CEO equity-based compensation affect firm’s propensity of issuing new securities?
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