Effects of credit ratings on capital structure decisions before and after the Financial Crisis Year 2008

This paper aims to investigate the difference between credit ratings on firms’ capital structure choices both before and after the crisis year 2008. The sample includes 1014 listed firms in the USA during the period of 2003-2013. The sample period is divided into two parts, one is the pre-crisis per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: JIANG, NING-YUAN
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54016/