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Sovereign Credit Ratings Before and After Financial Crises

This paper has addressed the following questions: Do sovereign credit ratings systematically help predict currency and banking crises? If not, why not? What needs to change? What is the behavior of credit ratings following the crises? Are there important
Reinhart, Carmen
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Ordered Response Models for Sovereign Debt Ratings [PDF]

Using ordered logit and probit plus random effects ordered probit approaches, we study the determinants of sovereign debt ratings. We found that the last procedure is the best for panel data as it takes into account the additional cross-section error ...
António Afonso, Pedro Gomes, Philipp Rother   +2 more
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Full faith in credit? : the power of numbers in rating frontier sovereigns and the global governance of development by the UNDP 1 [PDF]

, 2009
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the oldest dedicated development institution in the multilateral system, yet remains one of the smallest in terms of funding and resources.
Mühlen-Schulte, Arthur
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Sovereign Credit Rating, Rating Migration, and the Risk-Free Rate: A Joint Markov Process and Random Walk Modelling of the Risk-Free Rate

Expert Journal of Economics, 2019
The study proposes and tests a risk-free rate model that simultaneously lets the risk-free rate migrate between rating categories as risk-free rate ranges, and follow a random walk within rating categories as risk-free rate ranges.
Brian BARNARD
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Would an earlier inception of OMT by the ECB have prevented the 2012 Greek default?

International Review of Economics & Finance
To avert further debt crises following the Greek default of 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted outright purchases of sovereign bonds as part of its monetary policy regime. This paper examines whether an earlier inception of such purchases (OMT)
Nicolas Mäder
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The influence of sovereign credit ratings on corporate credit ratings.

, 2017
Credit ratings have a key role in modern financial markets as they communicate crucial information on the creditworthiness of a debt issuer to investors and regulators. These credit ratings are mostly determined by three rating agencies, namely Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch, even though, the credit rating industry counts a dozen of recognized ...
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Essays in sovereign debt and sovereign credit ratings

, 2017
Examining Board: Professor Piero Gottardi, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Arpad Abraham, European University Institute; Professor Luisa Lambertini , Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Professor Alberto Martin , Centre de Recerca en Economia ...
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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