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Carvalho, P., Laux, P. & Pereira, J. (2014). Is There a Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Credit Rating Announcements?. 8th Portuguese Finance Network.
Exportar Referência (IEEE)
J. P. Carvalho et al.,  "Is There a Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Credit Rating Announcements?", in 8th Portuguese Finance Network, Vilamoura, 2014
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@misc{carvalho2014_1731867581597,
	author = "Carvalho, P. and Laux, P. and Pereira, J.",
	title = "Is There a Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Credit Rating Announcements?",
	year = "2014",
	howpublished = "Outro",
	url = ""
}
Exportar RIS
TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Is There a Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Credit Rating Announcements?
T2  - 8th Portuguese Finance Network
AU  - Carvalho, P.
AU  - Laux, P.
AU  - Pereira, J.
PY  - 2014
CY  - Vilamoura
AB  - Although credit ratings are meant to foretell a firm’s risk of default, anecdotal evidence suggests that they actually influence the firm’s probability of default. This paper reports systematic evidence on some unintended effects of rating downgrades on future credit defaults. Based on complementary causality methodologies and using an extensive database of long-term corporate obligation ratings issued by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, from 1990 to 2012, the paper shows that downgrades crossing the threshold between investment grade and speculative grade may cause an increase of at least 3% in the 1-year probability of default. The increase in the probability of default seems to be stronger for deeper rating downgrades. The effect is also likely to be stronger for firms that already have a low initial rating.
ER  -