We explore the joint effect of expected government support to banks and changes in sovereign credit ratings on bank stock returns using data for banks in 37 countries between 1995 and 2011. We find that sovereign credit rating downgrades have a large negative effect on bank stock returns for...

This paper studies the impact of sovereign debt rating changes on liquidity for stocks from 40 countries for the period 1990-2009. We find that sovereign rating changes significantly affect stock liquidity. The impact is stronger for downgrades than for upgrades, and is nonlinear in event size....

Using US data over the period of 1988-2021, we find that firms with higher refinancing risk engage in more income-increasing accruals management, which indicates that the firms have opportunistic incentives to inflate earnings to appear financially attractive. We also document that the positive...