Are credit ratings valuable information?

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1061-1070

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Kraft, Kornelius ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; LENDING BEHAVIOR; MANUFACTURING; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34548691257     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100600749220     Document Type: Article

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