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This paper examines the price effects following credit rating revisions. We find a new return series after the announcement of credit downgrades. Contrary to the most recent US studies by Griffin and Sanvicente (1982), Holthausen and Leftwich (1986), Hand et al. (1992), and Dichev and Piotroski...
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The purpose of the article was to present the methods of adjusting the credit risk level of a company. It turns out that, to some extend, companies can modify their credit rating.Celem opracowania było przedstawienie metod jak przedsiębiorstwo może zmieniać swój poziom ryzyka. Okazuje się...
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We examine whether they engage in income-increasing accruals manipulation (AM) or real activities earnings management (RM) to affect the future rating changes when firm managers have private information about the upcoming credit rating change. Using the large sample of U.S. data over the period...
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There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...
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We examine initial public offerings (IPOs) with single, multiple, and no credit ratings. We document a beneficial effect of credit ratings provided by the three main credit rating agencies on IPO underpricing, which is amplified by the existence of multiple credit ratings. Credit rating levels...
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We examine initial public offerings (IPOs) with single, multiple, and no credit ratings. We document a beneficial effect of credit ratings on IPO underpricing, which is amplified by the existence of multiple credit ratings. Multiple ratings also reduce the extent of filing price revisions....
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Trade debt will be a permanent and very important source of short-term financing. Different types of return ratios have a decisive and different impact on trade debt. In fact, internal return ratios are able to explain firms' short-term financial behavioural towards an increase (or decrease) on...
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Do credit ratings affect the information content of corporate disclosure? Using novel data on rating analysts to obtain exogenous variation in rating information, we find that greater uncertainty in credit ratings increases the quality of information disclosed by the firm. This is consistent...
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MSME sector. The study uses discriminant analysis to identify significant factors that can be used to differentiate between … need special attention to reduce the risk of default. The analysis also highlights factors that should be considered for … existing borrowers during annual as well as quarterly credit risk analysis, in order to identify existing borrowers vulnerable …
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