Security issuance activities: Insights from crisis and peer influences

This thesis is composed of three essays related to security issuance activities. Chapter 2 investigates security issuance activities during the COVID pandemic. Chapter 3 examines the influence of peers’ Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) narratives on firms’ seasoned equity issuance activities. Chapter 4 investigates the impact of shifts in the investor base on convertible bond announcement returns from April 1986 to June 2021.