Credit Rating Announcements, Trading Activity and Yield Spreads: The Spanish Evidence
We test whether or not different rating announcements contain pricing-relevant information and modify trading activity patterns in the Spanish commercial paper and corporate bond markets. We observe a statistically significant widening of yield spreads in both segments of the corporate debt market a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/49040 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49040 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Credit rating agencies Rating changes Event study Yields Liquidity Trading frequency Corporate bond market Commercial paper market. Finanzas Econometría (Economía) 5302 Econometría |
| Sumario: | We test whether or not different rating announcements contain pricing-relevant information and modify trading activity patterns in the Spanish commercial paper and corporate bond markets. We observe a statistically significant widening of yield spreads in both segments of the corporate debt market after reviews of downgrades and negative outlook reports. In addition, we find that certain rating announcements encourage trading activity even when the information is not pricing-relevant. The release of information arouses investor interest for the involved securities. Thus, trading frequency increases, although larger-sized transactions, which should denote possible portfolio rebalancing, are not observed. In the commercial paper note market, we also find that that trading volumes fade away after reviews for downgrade. Investors seem to prefer reducing the trading of these short-term securities to liquidating their positions. |
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