Changing credit rating standards in the UK: Empirical evidence from 1999 to 2004

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-225

  Gonis, Eleimon ^a   Taylor, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; INVESTMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58849151727     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100802298018     Document Type: Article

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