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Oczekiwanie zmiany nastawienia credit ratings banków a kursy akcji przy uwzględnieniu poziomu rozwoju gospodarczego kraju
Expectation of banks' credit ratings announcement changes and stock prices taking into account the level economic development

Author(s): Patrycja Chodnicka-Jaworska
Subject(s): National Economy, Financial Markets
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: credit risk; credit rating; shares prices; banks

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is verification of the following hypothesis the share prices of banks have stronger reaction to bank credit rating announcements changes for a downgrade, both in developed and developing economies. The analysis(event study method) has been based on data from Thomson Reuters for the years 1980-2015 for 24 countries. Outlooks and watch lists proposed by all credit rating agencies have been used as an independent variable. Daily differences between the logarithmized rates of return of banks' shares have been used as dependent variable.

  • Issue Year: 29/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 105-120
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish