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

• Abdullah A. K. Alkhawaldeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abdullah A. K. Alkhawaldeh, Jamil J. Jaber

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alkwaldhh@yahoo.com (AAKA); jameljaber2011@hotmail.com (JJJ); dboughaci@usthb.dz (DB); ni@ukm.edu.my (NI)

  Affiliation Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

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• Jamil J. Jaber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abdullah A. K. Alkhawaldeh, Jamil J. Jaber

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  * E-mail: alkwaldhh@yahoo.com (AAKA); jameljaber2011@hotmail.com (JJJ); dboughaci@usthb.dz (DB); ni@ukm.edu.my (NI)

  Affiliations Department of Risk Management and Insurance, The University of Jordan, Aqaba Branch, Aqaba, Jordan, National University of Malaysia, School of Mathematical Sciences, Bangi, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7361-5490

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• Dalila Boughaci ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alkwaldhh@yahoo.com (AAKA); jameljaber2011@hotmail.com (JJJ); dboughaci@usthb.dz (DB); ni@ukm.edu.my (NI)

  ¶‡ DB and NI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, FEI, Algiers, Algeria

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• Noriszura Ismail

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alkwaldhh@yahoo.com (AAKA); jameljaber2011@hotmail.com (JJJ); dboughaci@usthb.dz (DB); ni@ukm.edu.my (NI)

  ¶‡ DB and NI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National University of Malaysia, School of Mathematical Sciences, Bangi, Malaysia

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