Corporate Social Responsibility and Credit Ratings

This study provides evidence on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firms’ credit ratings. We find that credit rating agencies tend to award relatively high ratings to firms with good social performance. This pattern is robust to controlling for key firm characteristic...

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Authors: Attig, Najah (Author) ; El Ghoul, Sadok (Author) ; Guedhami, Omrane (Author) ; Suh, Jungwon (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 117, Issue: 4, Pages: 679-694
Further subjects:B Corporate social responsibility
B Business Ethics
B Credit ratings
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