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Do Global Credit Rating Agencies Think Globally? The Information Content of Firm Ratings around the World [PDF]

open access: yes
What is the information content of firm ratings? We disentangle the relative contribution to firms? ratings of sovereign risks and individual firms? performance indicators, reportedly employed by rating agencies. We reach three conclusions.
Li-Gang Liu, Ferri, Giovanni
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How do sovereign credit ratings help to financially develop low-developed countries? CEPS ECMI Working Paper No. 8, November 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper investigates the importance of having a sovereign credit rating for a country’s financial development. After controlling for endogeneity and selection bias, we compare different aspects of the financial sector and the capital markets of ...
Luitel, Prabesh, Vanpée, Rosanne
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Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Polystyrene Over Fe–B Composite Catalyst for Enhanced Liquid Fuel Production

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare derived polystyrene waste represents a growing and under addressed fraction of plastic waste streams due to contamination risks and limited recyclability. This study aims to investigate the valorization of waste polystyrene foam through catalytic and noncatalytic pyrolysis pathways to evaluate product yield distribution and identify
Salman Khan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rating agencies and sovereign credit risk assessment

open access: yes
Credit rating agencies (CRAs) have not consistently met the expectations placed on them by investors and policymakers. It is difficult, however, to improve the quality of ratings through regulatory initiatives.
Guntram B. Wolff, Nicolas Véron
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Determinants of Spread and Credit Ratings and Creditworthiness for Emerging Market Sovereign Debt: A Follow-Up Study Using Pooled Data Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The study presented here is a follow-up study to Rowland and Torres (2004),who used a panel data framework together with data from 16 emerging market issuers to identify the determinants of the spread and the creditworthiness.
Peter Rowland
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An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The ray‐finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic knowledge of ray‐finned fishes between paleontologists working on extinct animals and neontologists studying extant species has obscured the ...
Jack Stack
wiley   +1 more source

Essays on credit ratings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This PhD thesis consists of three independent empirical research papers about credit ratings and the connection between credit ratings and the financial market.
Zhao, Sheng
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The internal crest anatomy of Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The supracranial crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaurids have long been a focus of study due primarily to their extreme morphology. The external anatomy of lambeosaurine crests is understood to be highly variable between species, but variation in their internal anatomy is less well understood.
Thomas W. Dudgeon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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