This study examines the relation between narrative risk disclosures in mandatory reports and the pricing of credit risk. In particular, we investigate whether and how the SEC mandate of risk factor disclosures (RFDs) affects credit default swap (CDS) spreads. Based on the theory of Duffie and...

This study examines the relation between managerial risk tolerance and corporate credit ratings. Using pilot licensing status as a proxy for managerial risk tolerance, we find that firms led by pilot CEOs receive worse credit ratings, suggesting that highly risk-tolerant CEOs impair their...

Effective from January 1, 2018, IFRS 9 changed banks' accounting for the impairment of financial assets by replacing the incurred credit loss (ICL) model with the expected credit loss (ECL) model, which enhances the timeliness of accounting for credit losses. Using a sample of international...