The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns

Credit ratings play an essential role in the UK financial market, and their changes can convey information to affect the stock returns. This paper studies the impact of corporate credit rating changes on UK stock returns instead of bond rating revisions. We adopt the event study method to analyze 28...

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Main Author: Zhang, Huizhong
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62793/
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description Credit ratings play an essential role in the UK financial market, and their changes can convey information to affect the stock returns. This paper studies the impact of corporate credit rating changes on UK stock returns instead of bond rating revisions. We adopt the event study method to analyze 283 samples of corporate credit rating revisions by Standard & Poor`s and Moody`s from 1999 to 2020. Results indicate that significant negative abnormal returns exist in downgrade changes, while the upgrades only have insignificant abnormal returns. The multiple-step and contaminated rating reviews result in a more incredible market reaction than the others. Cross-sectional regressions are launched to investigate whether the switch to and within the investment and speculative category would affect the abnormal returns but only get an insignificant result.
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spelling nottingham-627932023-04-18T10:04:37Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62793/ The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns Zhang, Huizhong Credit ratings play an essential role in the UK financial market, and their changes can convey information to affect the stock returns. This paper studies the impact of corporate credit rating changes on UK stock returns instead of bond rating revisions. We adopt the event study method to analyze 283 samples of corporate credit rating revisions by Standard & Poor`s and Moody`s from 1999 to 2020. Results indicate that significant negative abnormal returns exist in downgrade changes, while the upgrades only have insignificant abnormal returns. The multiple-step and contaminated rating reviews result in a more incredible market reaction than the others. Cross-sectional regressions are launched to investigate whether the switch to and within the investment and speculative category would affect the abnormal returns but only get an insignificant result. 2020-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62793/1/20203980_BUSI4020_Dissertation.pdf Zhang, Huizhong (2020) The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title_full The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title_fullStr The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title_full_unstemmed The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title_short The effect of corporate credit rating changes on UK common stock returns
title_sort effect of corporate credit rating changes on uk common stock returns
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62793/