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Warrant Financing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Extract

This article develops a criterion for comparing warrant financing with further common stock financing from the viewpoint of a firm's current stockholders. This criterion is then related to a complementary one presented by Bierman [1] and a condition is imposed on Bierman's cost of warrant financing for warrant financing to be preferred to further stock financing. Finally the article considers the limitations of these criteria and qualitatively discusses risk considerations that influence the attractiveness of warrant financing.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1976

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Footnotes

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Cornell University. The author is indebted to Harold Bierman for valuable comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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