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Modelling the Persistence of Credit Ratings When Firms Face Financial Constraints, Recessions and Credit Crunches [PDF]
Making accurate predictions of corporate credit ratings is a crucial issue to both investors and rating agencies. Recent events have drawn attention to ratings agencies methods.
Paul Mizen, Serafeim Tsoukas
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Do rating agencies consider the social capital of the firm in their ratings?
China Accounting and Finance ReviewWe examine whether the social capital of the area where a firm’s headquarters is located affects that firm’s credit rating. Given that credit rating agencies only infrequently visit a firm’s headquarters, it is pertinent to investigate whether this soft ...
C.S. Agnes Cheng +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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What Promotes Japanese Regional Banks to Disclose Credit Ratings Voluntarily? [PDF]
This paper examines what types of Japanese regional banks are more likely to obtain credit ratings at the present time when disclosures by financial institutions are becoming more and more important. We found that banks in more competitive markets, those
Kondo, Kazumine
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The effect of brand assets on firm value and credit ratings – Evidence from Korea
Cogent Business & ManagementThis study aims to empirically analyze the impact of brand assets, a company’s core competency, on firm value and credit ratings using companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ from 2011 to 2019.
Mi-Young Shin, Kyunbeom Jeong
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Does rating shopping exist in spanish securitization issues?
Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión, 2015 Debt issue credit ratings can lead to conflicts of interest as the issuer itself is entrusted with contracting and compensating the rating agency. Into the bargain, the credit rating agency may be involved in designing the issues that the same agency ...
Miguel Á. Peña Cerezo +2 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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The collapse of so many AAA-rated structured finance products in 2007-2008 has brought renewed attention to the causes of ratings failures and the conflicts of interest in the Credit Ratings Industry.
Joel Shapiro +2 more
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Credit Ratings and ESG Ratings in the European Union [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences SeriesOver time, credit ratings have gained a major role in the financial market, influencing various financial aspects. For businesses, a good credit rating can indicate financial stability to investors, suppliers, and customers.
Ana Maria (Marasescu) Necula
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