The Triviality of Capital Ownership

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu
Mon Dec 21 07:58:27 PST 1998


K. Bevans wrote:
>
> C. Leung,
>
> Bondholders actually lend working capital where stockholders,
> other than at new issues, do not.

Say what? Bond holders only lend working capital to the firm if they buy the bonds directly from it; in most instances, they are just buying them from somebody else. In this sense, they are not different from stockholders, no?


> peace

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