The Effects of Credit Rating Announcements on Bond Liquidity: An Event Study

Author(s):  
Pilar Abad ◽  
Antonio Diaz ◽  
Ana Escribano ◽  
M. Dolores Robles
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Steiner ◽  
Volker G. Heinke

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (17) ◽  
pp. 1452-1462
Author(s):  
Yuantao Xie ◽  
Juan Yang ◽  
Fahad Munir

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Steffen Hundt ◽  
Björn Sprungk ◽  
Andreas Horsch

Wealth transfer effects between company owners and lenders based on changes in a firm’s credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on U.S. capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these studies, we compared the price effects of stocks and corporate bonds of the same issuer using robust event study methods. Our findings indicated that downgrades cause negative price effects for owners and lenders of European firms, whereas upgrades only induced positive price effects for lenders. However, we did not find evidence for the existence of wealth transfer effects between owners and lenders on European capital markets.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwan M. Abdeldayem ◽  
Ramzi Nekhili

<p>Between 2014 and 2015, the oil price almost halved. Since then, it has fallen a further 40%. Consequently, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Bahrain’s long-term issuer rating from Baa3 to Ba1with a negative outlook and placed it on review for further downgrade. In this context, previous literature reaches no agreement about the impact of credit rating changes on stock prices. Some studies indicate that credit rating changes do not affect stock prices, while others conclude they do. Therefore, this study aims to examine whether credit rating change has a significant impact on Bahraini stock prices. We conducted an event study to analyze stock market reaction to such news in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Even though Bahrain has witnessed a series of sovereign downgrades over the past five years, the latest downgrading event in February 17, 2016, has been followed by a credit rating downgrade of its banking sector in March 7, 2016. Hence the choice of the sample period of the event study includes both these downgrading events over the period of study from January 2, 2014 till March 22, 2016. Three sectors were selected from the Bahrain all share index: banks, service and industrial. The findings of the study reveal that sovereign rating downgrade has some mixed pre-announcement and post-announcement effects and credit rating downgrade provides useful information. Overall, the results indicate that downgrades and negative outlook announcements have an adverse impact on long-term equity returns, but little impact on short-term performance.</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávia Cruz de Souza Murcia ◽  
Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia ◽  
José Alonso Borba

This study analyzes the effect of credit rating announcements on stock returns in the Brazilian market during 1997-2011. We conducted an event study using a sample of 242 observations of listed companies, 179 from Standard and Poor’s and 63 from Moody’s, to analyze stock market reaction. Abnormal returns have been computed using the Market Model and CAPM for three windows: three days (-1, +1), 11 days (-5, +5) and 21 days (-10, +10). We find statistically significant abnormal returns in days -1 and 0 for all the three types of rating announcement tested: initial rating, downgrades and upgrades. For downgrades, consisted with prior studies, our results also showed negative abnormal returns for all practically all windows tested. Overall, our findings evidence the rating announcements do have information content, as it impacts stock returns causing abnormal returns, especially when they bring ‘bad news’ to the market.


Author(s):  
Svetlana Avrutskaya ◽  
Elizaveta Maricheva

Event study is a widespread technique for testing the semi-strong form of the market efficiency hypothesis. Among traditionally studied events, changes in corporate credit ratings by rating agencies have a special importance, since rating agencies use both publicly available and insider information. Studies of developed and emerging markets point to different reactions of stock prices to rating upgrades and downgrades and identify several factors affecting the scale of this effect, including the size and liquidity of the stock market, the level of regulation of the industry, the market capitalization of the company, the status of the rating agency, and others.   On the Russian market, the impact of credit rating upgrades and downgrades on stock prices has not been investigated so far. Ongoing studies of other events affecting stock prices show that the market’s reactions are pretty much in line with those of developed markets, despite its immaturity, limited transparency, high volatility, narrowness and low liquidity, as well as the small number of significant events.   In this article, we evaluate the level of efficiency of the Russian stock market and analyse the reaction of stock prices to changes in issuer credit ratings by international rating agencies using the traditional event study methodology in a narrow event window of 31 days over the period 2016–2020 on a sample of 49 public companies. We show that credit rating upgrades do not lead to statistically significant positive abnormal returns. Visual analysis demonstrates that rating downgrades result in substantial negative abnormal returns. This effect varies for financial and non-financial companies and companies with low and high capitalization yet differs from the effects observed for developed markets; nevertheless, these abnormal returns are not statistically significant. Still, there are grounds to conclude that the Russian stock market is not efficient in the semi-strong form and is closer in its characteristics to emerging markets, which is important information for investors, as it permits them to develop profitable trading strategies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Amir Saadaoui ◽  
Mohamed Kriaa

This study examines the effect of the informational content of local credit rating announcements in emerging markets on the liquidity of their bond markets. We analyze the bond liquidity markets across five countries such as Poland, Greece, Spain, Hungary and Turkey. The sample includes daily data about sovereign bonds over the period ranging from July 2009 to January 2014.We mainly focus on the period before and after the sovereign debt crisis. We note that the bond liquidity is affected due to the sign of the rating granted by the rating agencies for each country.


2010 ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Leszek Czerwonka
Keyword(s):  

Przedsiębiorstwa jako drogę wzrostu często wybierają transakcje połączeń z innymi podmiotami rynkowymi. Transakcje te wpływają na przyszłe zyski przedsiębiorstw, a przez to na cenę spółek. Celem opracowania jest analiza wpływu transakcji połączeń na wartość spółek przejmujących, notowanych na warszawskiej Giełdzie Papierów Wartościowych, w okresie 3 lat po ogłoszeniu transakcji. Badania dokonano metodą analizy zdarzeń (event study), w ramach której dokonano oceny wpływu ogłoszenia fuzji na nadzwyczajne stopy zwrotu z akcji BHAR. (abstrakt oryginalny)


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