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Research on the credit rating process has primarily focused on how rating agencies incorporate firm characteristics into their rating opinions. We contribute to this literature by examining the impact of managerial ability on the credit rating process. Given debt market participants' interest in...
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CEO incentives to mitigate the risk-shifting incentives of firm managers …
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Central counterparties (CCPs) have increasingly become a cornerstone of financial markets infrastructure. We present a model where trades are time-critical, liquidity is limited and there is limited enforcement of trades. We show a CCP novating trades implements efficient trading behaviour. It...
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We examine the impact of Level 3 assets held by non-financial companies on credit risk. Specifically, we investigate how the pricing uncertainty of Level 3 assets is reflected in credit ratings, corporate bond yield spreads, and incidences of bond covenants. We find that higher holdings of Level...
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How portable are top management skills? Should (and do) firms care about firm-manager fit when they hire new managers …? How is fit related to managerial 'style'? We hypothesize that if firms and managers are matched with each other on the … when the firm and the manager do not fit well, managers influence several firm-specific variables, consistent with …
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on how well a firm can assess its managers' human capital. If so, projects pitched by managers about whom the firm has …
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We examine whether bankers face disciplining consequences for structuring poorly performing corporate loans. We construct a novel dataset containing the employment histories and loan portfolios of a large sample of corporate bankers and find that corporate credit events (i.e., downgrades,...
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