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Examining the Behavior of Credit Rating Agencies Post 2008 Economic Turmoil

International Journal of Management and Economics, 2017
The demand for sovereign ratings has increased throughout last decades. Until the1990’s, credit rating agencies (CRAs) did not rate most of the emerging markets and the focus was almost only on developed countries, however, during this decade the number ...
Uslu Çağrı L.
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Rating the United Kingdom: the British government’s sovereign credit ratings, 1976-1978 [PDF]

, 2015
The UK received its first sovereign credit ratings in 1978. Despite having required financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund only 18 months earlier, the British government managed to secure ‘triple-A’ ratings from both Standard and Poor ...
Archer, Beaulieu, Beckett, Biglaiser, Bissoondoyal-Bheenick, Broadberry, Burk, Burk, Cairncross, Clark, Clift, Gaillard, Ganguin, Hand, Healey, Hennessy, Hickson, Hite, Howe, Kruck, Lake, Langohr, Ludlam, Löffler, Löffler, Middleton, Moody's, More, Mosley, Mosley, Partnoy, Partnoy, Pinches, Reisen, Rogers, Schenk, Schenk, Shepherd, Sinclair, Singleton, Standard and Poor's, Sylla, Thatcher, Tomlinson, Tomlinson, Toye, Wass, Weinstein, White, Younglai, Ziegler   +50 more
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Germline TP53 Mutations Causing Diamond–Blackfan Anemia: A French Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diamond–Blackfan anemia is a rare congenital erythroblastopenia typically caused by mutations in ribosomal protein genes. Recently, gain‐of‐function mutations in TP53 have been identified as a novel cause of Diamond–Blackfan anemia. We report two French patients who both harbored a heterozygous TP53 deletion (NM_000546.5: c.1077delA; p ...
Rafael Moisan, Lydie Da Costa, Ludivine David Nguyen, Heloise Chosseler, Audrey Riquet, Benedicte Bruno, Melissa Barbati   +6 more
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Directional mobility of debt ratings [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we describe a method to decompose a well-known measure of debt ratings mobility into it’s directional components. We show, using sovereign debt ratings as an example, that this directional decomposition allows us to better understand the ...
Bhaumik, SK, Landon-Lane, JS
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Impacts of Sovereign Rating on Sub-Sovereign Bond Ratings in Emerging and Developing Economies

, 2016
This paper explores bond-level, issuer-level, and macro-level conditions that affect the distance between sovereign credit rating and sub-sovereign debt ratings. Over three-quarters of rated foreign-currency sub-sovereign bonds issued during 1990–2013 in 47 emerging and developing countries were rated at or below the corresponding sovereign rating ...
Mohapatra, Sanket, Nose, Manabu, Ratha, Dilip   +2 more
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Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages: application to European data [PDF]

We use EU sovereign bond yield and CDS spreads daily data to carry out an event study analysis on the reaction of government yield spreads before and after announcements from rating agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch).
Afonso, António, Furceri, Davide, Gomes, Pedro   +2 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
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Are Sovereign Credit Ratings Overrated? [PDF]

Comparative Economic Studies, 2017
In this paper we examine the relevance of changes in sovereign credit rating for the borrowing cost of EU countries. Our results indicate that discretionary credit rating announcements are only of limited economic importance for the borrowing cost of these countries.
Davor Kunovac, Rafael Ravnik
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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A proposed quantitative credit-rating methodology for South African provincial departments

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2016
The development of subnational credit-rating methodologies affords benefits for subnationals, the sovereign and its citizens. Trusted credit ratings facilitate access to financial markets and above-average ratings allow for the negotiation of better ...
Erika Fourie, Tanja Verster, Gary Wayne van Vuuren   +2 more
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