This paper investigates how lenders react to borrowers' rating changes under heterogeneous conditions and different regulatory regimes. Our findings suggest that corporate downgrades that increase capital requirements for lending banks under the Basel II framework are associated with increased...

This paper documents the diverse financial structures – including capital structures and funding strategies – of Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and offers an analysis of RFAs' lending capacity from a statutory, accounting and credit rating perspective. Using credit rating agencies'...

This paper documents the diverse financial structures – including capital structures and funding strategies – of Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and offers an analysis of RFAs' lending capacity from a statutory, accounting and credit rating perspective. Using credit rating agencies'...

This paper investigates the behaviour of credit rating agencies (CRAs) using a natural experiment in monetary policy. Specifically, we exploit the corporate QE of the Eurosystem and its rating-based specific design which generates exogenous variation in the probability for a bond of becoming...

We test whether credit rating analysts consider managerial ability as a credit risk factor and find that higher-ability managers obtain more favorable credit ratings. Controlling for past performance, these results suggest that managerial ability is itself a significant credit rating factor....

We show that sovereign debt impairments can have a significant impact on financial markets and real economies through a credit ratings channel. Specifically, we find that firms reduce their investment and reliance on credit markets due to a rising cost of debt capital following a sovereign...

A common belief held among researchers and policymakers is that regulatory reliance has inflated market demand for credit ratings, despite their decreasing informational value. Advances in information technology, coupled with reputation losses following the subprime crisis, renew the question of...

The objective of the paper is to apply three selected approaches for credit rating prediction, linear discriminant analysis, multinomial logistic regression and decision trees. The models are based on data of European companies' financial indicators and MORE rating. A special attention is paid...

This study investigates the role of tax avoidance in the credit rating process and whether differences exist in how rating agencies account for the risk relevance of tax avoidance. Using a sample of initial credit ratings assigned to public debt issuances during the 1994-2013 period, our...

This article analyzes the over-indebtedness caused by irresponsible mortgage lending by credit institutions in Spain that have been exacerbated by the economic crisis, the falling value of the real estate market and rising unemployment. This creates the risk of social and financial exclusion of...