A novel investigation of the influence of corporate governance on firms’ credit ratings

Abdullah A K Alkhawaldeh, Jamil Jaber, Dalila Boughaci and Noriszura Ismail

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: Corporate governance is the way of governing a firm in order to increase its accountability and to avoid any massive damage before it occurs. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of capital structure, firms’ size, and competitive advantages of firms as control variables on credit ratings. We investigate the role of corporate governance in improving the firms’ credit rating using a sample of Jordanian listed firms. We split firms into four categories according to WVB credit rating. We use both the binary logistic regression (LR) and the ordinal logistic regression (OLR) to model credit ratings in Jordanian environment. The empirical results show that the control variables are strong determinants of credit ratings. When we evaluate the relationship between the governance variables and credit ratings, we found interesting results. The board stockholders and board expertise are moderately significant. The board independence and role duality are weakly significant, while board size is insignificant.

Date: 2021
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