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In this study, we analyze the issue provisions of corporate bond. We find different provisions of corporate bond are par rate, interest payment, principal payment, guaranteed or not, maturity, issue price, issue type, puttable or callable, and sinking fund. The study finds the determent factors in designing the issue provisions of the corporate bond are the size of the issuer, credit rating, operation cycle, cash flow, expectation for the interest rate, the reinvestment risk of the investors and the acceptability of the refinance risk of the issuers. We also find the design for the corporate bond provisions creates the values as following: risk reallocation, enhanced liquidity, reduction in agency costs, reduction in transaction costs and tax arbitrage. The values mentioned above were suggested by Finnerty in 1988. Of those values, we can observe the higher frequency in risk reallocation, enhanced liquidity and reduction in transaction costs and tax arbitrage.
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