This paper aims to analyze the hypothesis that debenture issues generate
positive abnormal returns in the shares of the issuing companies. For this
purpose, a study of events is carried out between January 2014 and June
2015, based on the date of the announcement of the beginning of the
distribution of the debentures. The study analyzes 40 pre-and
post-conference sessions. The final sample is made up of 11 Brazilian
non-financial companies. As a result, it can be verified that the majority
of accumulated abnormal returns are positive and statistically different
from zero, confirming the hypothesis of this study. This fact points to
signals of semistrong market efficiency.
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