Credit Ratings, CEO Entrenchment, and Turnover: The Information Content of Credit Ratings
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Keywords
Contracts; Ratings; CEO Turnover;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2016-12-04 (Business Economics)
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