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International credit rating agencies in Africa: perceptions, trends and challenges
International Journal of Sustainable Economy, 2020This research examines the perceptions, trends and challenges of the influence of international rating agencies on national economic affairs in African states.
Misheck Mutize, M. Nkhalamba
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This contribution to the Working Paper Series of the Dutch central bank critically reviews the academic debate on the position and power of Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) and, in the light thereof, analyses the European regulatory approach to CRAs, thereby combining insights from economics and law.
Jakob De Haan, Fabian Amtenbrink
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This contribution to the Working Paper Series of the Dutch central bank critically reviews the academic debate on the position and power of Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) and, in the light thereof, analyses the European regulatory approach to CRAs, thereby combining insights from economics and law.
Jakob De Haan, Fabian Amtenbrink
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Credit Ratings and Rating Agencies
2020Credit rating agencies have developed as an information intermediary in the credit market because there are very large numbers of bonds outstanding with many different features. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association reports over $20 trillion of corporate bonds, mortgaged-backed securities, and asset-backed securities in the United ...
Miles Livingston, Lei Zhou
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Journal of International Money and Finance, 2018
We assess the marginal information value of credit rating announcements on market pricing of sovereign risk as measured by CDS spreads. We demonstrate that accurate assessment of the effect of credit rating changes must be conditioned on relevant ...
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We assess the marginal information value of credit rating announcements on market pricing of sovereign risk as measured by CDS spreads. We demonstrate that accurate assessment of the effect of credit rating changes must be conditioned on relevant ...
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Credit Ratings and Credit Rating Agencies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011The present chapter discusses the characteristics of credit rating agencies and their credit ratings. In describing the role they both play on the global financial markets, it focuses in particular on the increasing importance that legal regulation has gained in the context of credit ratings, both due to the increase in regulation through credit ...
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The Credit Rating Agencies and Their Role in the Financial System
The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation, 2018Despite extensive criticism, the major credit rating agencies (CRAs)—Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch—remain central entities in the financial markets of the United States and Europe, especially with respect to bonds and similar financial ...
Lawrence J. White
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Creditability of Credit Rating Agencies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Credit rating is an "opinion regarding the creditworthiness of an entity, a debt or financial obligation, debt security, preferred share or other financial instrument, or of an issuer of such a debt or financial obligation, debt security, preferred share or other financial instrument, issued using an established and defined ranking system of rating ...
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Are credit rating agencies still relevant? Evidence on certification from Moody's credit watches
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2016We show that a rating agency can provide certification for corporate borrowers through the mechanism of a credit watch with direction downgrade. We find that firms with watch-preceded rating confirmations (firms for which original ratings are confirmed ...
Hamdi Driss +2 more
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The impact of market sectors and rating agencies on credit ratings: global evidence
, 2019A credit rating, as a single indicator on one consistent scale, is designed as an objective and comparable measure within a credit rating agency (CRA).
K. Lopatta +2 more
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2013
The following sections are included: Introduction The CRAs The role of CRAs Credit ratings Taxonomy of rating Regulation of CRAs Conflicts of interest The Importance of Competition Rating Methodologies General principles of the rating process Input factors for the rating process Grading process for the rating agencies Rating announcement Glossary ...
D'ECCLESIA, RITA LAURA +1 more
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The following sections are included: Introduction The CRAs The role of CRAs Credit ratings Taxonomy of rating Regulation of CRAs Conflicts of interest The Importance of Competition Rating Methodologies General principles of the rating process Input factors for the rating process Grading process for the rating agencies Rating announcement Glossary ...
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