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Rating "Agencies": How Regulation Might Help [PDF]

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Edward J. Kane, Richard Herring
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Rating Agencies [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
by issuers paying for ratings is misguided.
Harold L. Cole, Thomas F. Cooley
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Credit Rating Agencies

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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Rating Agencies

2023
Abstract Rating agencies form part of the investment intermediation process as a type of market ‘gatekeeper’ that assesses credit risk through the credit rating process. This chapter examines the harmonized EU rules governing rating agencies, including the related administrative rules and the supporting supervisory and enforcement ...
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Credit Rating Agencies

2010
Bond rating and the establishment of formal CRAs began in 1909 when John Moody began rating US railroad bonds, soon expanding to utility and industrial bonds. Poor’s Publishing Company followed in 1916 and Fitch Publishing Company in 1924. The business was characterised by the investor-pays model, where investors bought reports from the CRAs containing
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Credit Ratings and Rating Agencies

2020
Credit 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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Rating the credit rating agencies

Applied Economics, 2016
ABSTRACTWe offer herein several policy tools that can assist the new Office of Credit Ratings within the Securities and Exchange Commission in assessing the quality of past credit ratings and thus measuring the inclusive competency of credit rating agencies.
Dror Parnes, Sagi Akron
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Rating the Rating Agencies [PDF]

open access: possible, 2000
In this study, we begin by assessing the ability of sovereign credit ratings to anticipate crises. In addition, given the wave of sovereign credit ratings downgrades that have followed the crises in Asia, we investigate formally the extent to which credit ratings are reactive.
Reinhart, Carmen   +2 more
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Reforming Rating Agencies

2017
Rating agencies have been under the spotlight since the beginning of the century. Financial disasters and the subprime crisis of 2008 brought about the birth of such preoccupations as many investors and regulators became sceptical about their activities.
Raimbourg, Philippe, Salvadè, Federica
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Credit Rating Agencies

2022
Credit rating agencies (CRAs) assess the creditworthiness of debt issuers on financial markets. They are private companies and the ratings they issue are judgements about the prospect of repayment of debt by an issuer in time and in full. A rating is not an investment recommendation, but it is an opinion about the creditworthiness of a financial ...
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