Thanks to an analysis of structural changes in abnormal spread series, we stress specific investors' reactions to rating actions. These reactions are much more usual when the issues are in sterlings than in euros. When reacting in the euro area, investors mainly react after banks' and public...

The relation that may exist between rating announcements and bond spreads is unclear, despite the fact that many event studies have been dedicated to that problem. Several of them cast a doubt upon the utility and the function of credit rating agencies on the bond markets, which are usually...

Revisiting the two-factor valuation of financial futures contracts and their derivatives, we propose a new approach in which the covariance process between the underlying asset price and the money market interest rate is set endogenously according to investors' arbitrage operations. The...

Using a sample of 622 companies in 25 countries over a four-year period (2003ndash;2006), we investigate the translation risk hedging strategy of multinational companies. We find that a significant percentage of companies (47%) actively manage their translation risk. A credit rating...

This article analyses the effect of rating agencies' decisions on stock risks for European issuers concerning five kinds of events. Our approach is an extension of dummy variable regression event study methodology, using a GARCH(1,1) estimation to capture simultaneously the impact on both...