Importância do rating na padronização de debêntures

Standard bonds dispense investors of complex contractual analysis and sophisticated calculus in secondary markets transactions. This paper – based in non-standard bond contracts – investigates the effects of controlling statistically contractual differences: would the bond rating...

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Autores: Sheng, Hsia Hua, Saito, Richard
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista de Administração de Empresas
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/37115
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/37115
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Rating
interest rate
standardization
corporate bonds
covenants
taxa de juros
padronização
debêntures
cláusulas
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Sumario:Standard bonds dispense investors of complex contractual analysis and sophisticated calculus in secondary markets transactions. This paper – based in non-standard bond contracts – investigates the effects of controlling statistically contractual differences: would the bond ratings be sufficient to capture interest rates’ costs of its issues? We take a sample of 24 bond issues in the period from 1999 to 2001 in order to verify if the difference in corporate bond covenants, when comparing issues with high rating and low rating, are statistically significant (binomial distribution). We conclude that, for high ratings, interest rate reflects standard features due to rating. For low ratings, standard features do not capture specific contractual difference, like established reinvestment and guarantee.