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Sovereign Credit Rating Announcements and Baltic Stock Markets

open access: yesOrganizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 2011
This study examines whether sovereign credit rating announcements convey price relevant information to investors in Baltic stock markets, and tests the degree of anticipation and price reaction.
Asta Klimavičienė
doaj   +1 more source

Sovereign credit rating provision and financial development

open access: yesJournal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
This paper examines the impact of obtaining a sovereign credit rating for the first time on financial development in 50 emerging countries. Controlling for endogeneity and selection bias, we show that receiving an initial sovereign credit rating significantly transforms domestic financial systems.
Kowalewski, Oskar   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the exchange rate using price levels and country risk

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2015
This paper builds two factor discrete time models in order to investigate the effect of sovereign risk on the nominal exchange rates in a Markov switching framework. The empirical section of the paper uses seven currencies from Chile, the Czech Republic,
Gábor Regős
doaj   +1 more source

International bank flows to emerging markets: Influence of sovereign credit ratings and their regional spillover effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We examine whether changes in sovereign credit assessments help determine international bank flows to emerging countries. We focus on the bank flows of G7 countries to a sample of 55 emerging market borrowers for 19952008.
Kim, S, Wu, E
core   +1 more source

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

Sovereign credit ratings, the macroeconomy and credit default swap spreads [PDF]

open access: yesBrussels economic review, 2013
Special Issue30th Symposium on Money, Banking and FinanceGuest editors: Christian Aubin, Noëlle Duport andDaniel ...
Liu, Yang, MORLEY, BRUCE
openaire   +1 more source

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

European versus Anglo-Saxon credit view: Evidence from the eurozone sovereign debt crisis

open access: yes, 2016
We analyse whether different levels of country ties to Europe among the rating agencies Moody's, S&P, and Fitch affect the assignment of sovereign credit ratings, using the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis of 2009-2012 as a natural laboratory. We find that
Altdörfer, Marc   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Home Bias in Sovereign Ratings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Credit rating agencies are frequently criticized for producing sovereign ratings that do not accurately reflect the economic and political fundamentals of rated countries. This article discusses how the home country of rating agencies could affect rating
Fuchs , Andreas, Gehring , Kai
core   +4 more sources

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