Pricing of project finance bonds: a comparative analysis of primary market spreads

Sebastião S. Guedes, João M. Pinto

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of project finance (PF) and traditional corporate finance (CF) bond spreads and pricing. Using a cross-section of 47,196 bonds issued worldwide in the 1993–2020 period, we show that PF and CF bonds are differently priced, PF bonds have higher spreads than comparable CF bonds, and although ratings are the most important pricing determinant for PF and CF bonds at issuance, investors rely on other contractual, macroeconomic, and firms' characteristics beyond these ratings. Our results do not support the hypothesis of PF transactions as mechanisms of reducing sponsoring firms' funding costs: the cost of borrowing affects financing choices and PF transactions' weighted average spread is higher than that of comparable CF bond deals. We also find that economies of scale, risk management, and information asymmetry arguments affect sponsoring firms' choice between PF and CF transactions.
Idioma originalEnglish
Número do artigo102429
Número de páginas60
RevistaJournal of Corporate Finance
Volume82
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Estado da publicaçãoPublicado - out. 2023

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