All Outputs (3)

Rating or no rating? That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies (2012)
Journal Article
Tucker, J., Gonis, E., & Paul, S. (2012). Rating or no rating? That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies. European Journal of Finance, 18(8), 709-735. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2011.649215

The aim of this paper is to examine the main determinants of the rating likelihood of UK companies. We use a binary probit specification to model the main drivers of a firm's propensity to be rated. Using a sample of 245 non-financial UK companies ov... Read More about Rating or no rating? That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies.

Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies (2012)
Journal Article
Gonis, E., Tucker, J., & Paul, S. (2012). Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies. European Journal of Finance, 18(8), 709-735

The aim of this paper is to examine the main determinants of the rating likelihood of UK companies. We use a binary probit specification to model the main drivers of a firm’s propensity to be rated. Using a sample of 245 non-financial UK companies ov... Read More about Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies.

The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation (2012)
Journal Article
Gonis, E., Paul, S., & Wilson, N. The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation. Manuscript submitted for publication

This study examines the determinants of the decision of UK non-financial companies to solicit a credit rating drawing upon the information asymmetry, signalling, agency and default literature. The paper extends the current literature on the determina... Read More about The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation.