The abuse of dominant position by establishing predatory pricing raises when the undertaking, seeking to eliminate its competitor determines to sell goods for unreasonably low price, while after elimination or weakening of competition subsequently raises those prices in order to recoup losses...

CMBS are an important segment of the real estate debt markets which reduce the commercial property sector's dependence on bank financing. Until the advent of the credit squeeze in Q3:2007, the CMBS market was one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing sectors in the capital markets, for a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative study of prediction performances of an artificial neutral network (ANN) model against a linear prediction model like a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with regards to forecasting corporate credit ratings from financial...

This paper investigates the ratio of general long-term debt to general capital assets’ influence on municipal credit ratings – signals of risk to investors – and coupon rates. Given current uncertainty levels in credit markets, it is paramount that low risk be signaled to sell debt and...

Šiame darbe nustatomas AB „VST“ kredito reitingas. Remiantis tarptautinių kredito reitingo agentūrų Moody‘s bei Standard Poor‘s sukurtomis metodikomis, įvertinama elektros skirstymo bei tiekimo reguliuojamų paslaugų įmonės rizika. Nustačius kredito reitingo įverčius,...

Within the context of a banking institution, economic capital is a statistical measure of the amount of resources required to meet unexpected losses over a specified time period and specified level of certainty. The amount of economic capital held by banks is thus a function of their target...

Rationale The share of non-marketable assets (mainly bank loans) pledged as collateral in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy credit operations has increased in recent years. The Banco de España’s corporate credit assessment system (ICAS BE) has contributed significantly to this development...

Mit der Einführung von Basel II erhalten ab dem 01. Januar 2007 nahezu alle fremdfinan¬zierten Unterneh¬men im Rahmen einer Ratinga¬nalyse eine individuelle Bewertung ihrer Bo¬nität. Wie die Ratinganalyse haben sich auch die gesetzlichen Vertreter im Rahmen der Lageberichterstattung und...