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A Novel IBA-DE Hybrid Approach for Modeling Sovereign Credit Ratings
Nowadays, the sovereign credit rating is not only an index of a country’s economic performance and political stability but also an overall indicator of development and growth, as well as the trust factor that is associated with the country.
Srđan Jelinek +4 more
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Are Sovereign Credit Ratings Overrated? [PDF]
In this paper we examine the relevance of changes in sovereign credit rating for the borrowing cost of EU countries. Our results indicate that discretionary credit rating announcements are only of limited economic importance for the borrowing cost of these countries.
Davor Kunovac, Rafael Ravnik
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Sovereign ratings: Determinants and policy implications for India
This paper studies sovereign rating models of Moody's, Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Fitch to identify important determinants of sovereign ratings. Ordered logit and probit are employed to check for robustness of empirical results.
Sanjay Sehgal +3 more
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Our research aims to develop the regime switching Markov chain (RSMC), a discrete time Markov chain whose underlying regime is depending on a hidden Markov model, which express the dynamics of sovereign credit rating migration.
Sung Youl Oh +3 more
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Sovereign Credit Ratings in Latin America and the Caribbean: History and Impact on Bond Spreads
In this study, we examine the history of sovereign credit ratings in Latin America and the Caribbean, the evolution of credit quality, and the relationship between rating changes and the cost of accessing external financing as reflected in the behavior ...
Inés Bustillo +2 more
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Default, Currency Crises, and Sovereign Credit Ratings [PDF]
Sovereign credit ratings play an important part in determining countries' access to international capital markets and the terms of that access. In principle, there is no reason to expect that sovereign credit ratings should systematically predict currency crises.
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The role of sovereign credit ratings in fiscal discipline [PDF]
This paper investigates several aspects of the relationship between sovereign credit ratings and fiscal discipline. The analysis of over one thousand country-year observations for 93 countries during the 1999-2010 period reveals that a country's debt level is likely to increase with higher ratings, confirming the existence of pro-cyclicality and path ...
Duygun, M., Ozturk, H., Shaban, M.
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This paper analyzes methodologies of credit rating assessment of major rating agencies, with the focus on Fitch Ratings (Fitch). The methodology data were collected from Fitch Ratings.
Elena M. Grigorieva, Darko Vukovic
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Informal Sector, ICT Dynamics, and the Sovereign Cost of Debt: A Machine Learning Approach
We examine the main effects of ICT penetration and the shadow economy on sovereign credit ratings and the cost of debt, along with possible second-order effects between the two variables, on a dataset of 65 countries from 2001 to 2016. The paper presents
Apostolos Kotzinos +2 more
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The article investigates the state of the Eurozone countries’ financial security in the context of the world economic environment globalization. For the purpose of this, financial security is considered in terms of institutional, instrumental, and ...
Nataliia Goncharenko +3 more
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