This study exemines the roles of corporate social activity (CSR) and executive compensation structure on the pricing of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) with special focus on the role of CSR in reducing the level of information asymmetry between managers and future shareholders of issuing firms through SEOs. This study also investigates the interaction between executive compensation structure and CSR on the discounting of SEOs. We use a sample of 2,102 seasoned equity offerings of U.S. firms with CSR scores from 1995 to 2015 in our OLS fixed effect regression analysis. The results show that issuing firms with high CSR are more likely to expericence a lower degree of the SEO discount. The results also document a positive association between CSR and a high proportion of equity-based compensation of issuing firms’ executives. The findings of this paper confirm that CSR attenuates the impact of information asymmetry and the pre-SEO price uncertainty on the pricing of the offers and hence the SEO discount. Furthermore, CSR reinforces the impact of executive firmrelated wealth on the discounting of seasoned equity offerings. It appears that firm-related wealth motivates managers to actively engage in reducing information asymmetry activities before SEOs, thereby decreasing the SEO discount.

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Hypotheses
3. Data and Research Methods
    3.1. Data Sources
    3.2. Regression Models and Variable Construction
4. Empirical Results
    4.1. Descriptive Statistics
    4.2. Regression Results
5. Conclusion
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• Hong Chuong PHAM(University Management Board, National Economics University)
• Duc Anh NGO(Department of Accounting, Finance and MIS, School of Business, Norfolk State University)
• Ha Thanh LE(Faculty of Environment, Climate Change and Urban Studies, National Economics University) Corresponding Author
• Thiet Thanh NGUYEN(Accounting, Economics, and Finance Department, George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics, University of South Carolina Upstate)