This study explores developments in corporate creditworthiness before and after ownership events. We utilize the … Blockholders database recently produced by Dlugosz, Fahlenbrach, Gompers, and Metrick (2006) and discover that ownership …

regulatory concerns about the ownership and governance of rating agencies, especially those that are publicly listed …

negatively correlated with board size, profitability, growth opportunity, and non-debt tax shield. Credit rating is positively … is positive but weakly significant, but seems not consistent with expectations. Finally, profitability cause could be … regarded as an interesting finding. Indeed, there is an inverse correlation between profitability and total debt (Notice that …

model but it is developed on an integrated concept of the corporate performance. The integration of the Lintner's model with … estimations might bias the perception of the corporate performance and generate misallocation in credit fundings. We suggest that … impact of SMEs is the highest and where such firms present best performances. Results from risk-adjusted profitability …

This study investigates the differential impact that various dimensions of corporate social performance have on the …, based on an extensive longitudinal dataset, suggests that overall, good performance is rewarded and corporate social …

debt overhang leads to a significant improvement in operating performance (return on assets, net profit margin). In … provides lending banks with the counterfactual of what would have been the ski hotel's operating performance in the absence of …