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Avoiding the rating bounce : why rating agencies are slow to react to new information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Rating agencies state that they take a rating action only when it is unlikely to be reversed shortly afterwards. Based on a formal representation of the rating process, I show that such a policy provides a good explanation for the empirical evidence ...
Löffler, Gunter
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bonuses, Credit Rating Agencies and the Credit Crunch [PDF]

open access: yes
The payment of bonuses can bring big benefits. But harm, too, can result. In the financial sector, this is especially true, above all when they are related to noisy indicators of performance over brief periods. This paper starts by exploring these ideas,
Guy Spier, Peter Sinclair, Tom Skinner
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What “Hides” Behind Sovereign Debt Ratings? [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we study the determinants of sovereign debt credit ratings using rating notations from the three main international rating agencies, for the period 1995-2005. We employ panel estimation and random effects ordered probit approaches to assess
António Afonso   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Rate expectations: what can and cannot be done about rating agencies [PDF]

open access: yes
Credit rating agencies have been under the spotlight since the beginning of the current financial crisis. They failed in their assessment of US residential mortgage- based securities in the mid-2000s.
Nicolas Véron
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Stochastic Model of Corporate Lifespan Based on Corporate Credit Ratings

open access: yesInternational Journal of Engineering Business Management, 2013
Credit rating agencies and corporate lifecycles have been a subject of interest for practitioners and academics during the recent period of worldwide economic and debt crises. In this article, we examine what corporate lifespan the credit rating agencies
Ondrej Machek, Jiri Hnilica
doaj   +1 more source

Management of Credit Rating Agencies – Modified “Issuer‑Pays” Model

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2017
The basic goal of the article is analyse the current regulations about credit rating agency and their activity in European Union and United States and answer the question which one the issuer or investor paid credit rating model is better, as a result ...
Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
doaj   +1 more source

Emergence of rating agencies: Implications for establishing a regional rating agency in Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present analysis sheds light on the setting up a regional rating agency in Asia in the wake of recent financial crisis. We investigate the policy facing a financial regulator while evaluating whether or not to admit new entrants into the credit ...
Liu, Li-gang, Tsai, Ying Yi
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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