Results 11 to 20 of about 945 (260)
Exchange Rates and Sovereign Risk [PDF]
Management Science, 2022 An increase in a country’s sovereign risk, as measured by credit default swap spreads, is accompanied by a contemporaneous depreciation of its currency and an increase of its volatility. The relation between currency excess returns and sovereign risk is mainly driven by default expectations (rather than distress risk premia) and exposure to global ...
Pasquale Della Corte +3 more
openaire +5 more sources
Sovereign ceilings “lite”? The impact of sovereign ratings on corporate ratings [PDF]
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2013 Although credit rating agencies have gradually moved away from a policy of never rating a corporation above the sovereign (the ‘sovereign ceiling’), it appears that sovereign credit ratings remain a significant determinant of corporate credit ratings. We examine this link using data for advanced and emerging economies over the period of 1995–2009.
Borensztein, Eduardo +2 more
openaire +3 more sources
Are sovereign ratings by CRAs consistent? [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2015 This study is an attempt to compare and contrast the credit ratings granted by prominent agencies, the so-called Big Three namely S&P, Moody?s and Fitch, that dominate the market. The sovereign ratings are proven to motivate the CDS figures of countries empirically, and low ratings are known to increase the interest paid to liabilities ...
Saka Hami, Orhan Mehmet
openaire +3 more sources
The Home Bias in Sovereign Ratings [PDF]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013 Using data on 143 sovereigns provided by nine agencies based in six countries, we estimate the determinants of sovereign ratings to test whether agencies assign higher ratings to their respective home countries, as well as to economically, geopolitically, and culturally aligned countries.
Fuchs, Andreas, Gehring, Kai
openaire +11 more sources
Subjectivity in Sovereign Credit Ratings [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Abstract A sovereign creditrating is a function of hard and soft information that should reflect the creditworthiness and the probability of default of a country. We propose an alternative characterisation for the subjective component of a sovereign credit rating – the parts related to the ratee’s lobbying effort or its familiarity from a United ...
De Moor, Lieven +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Determinants and Impact of Sovereign Credit Ratings [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1996 n recent years, the demand for sovereign credit rat-ings—the risk assessments assigned by the creditrating agencies to the obligations of central govern-ments—has increased dramatically. More govern-ments with greater default risk and more companiesdomiciled in riskier host countries are borrowing in inter-national bond markets.
Richard Cantor, Frank Packer
openaire +3 more sources
Risk, ambiguity, and sovereign rating [PDF]
International Economics and Economic Policy, 2014 Decisions of investing in sovereign assets involve both risk and ambiguity. Ambiguity arises from unknown elements characterizing the value of a generic sovereign. In presence of ambiguity, ambiguity-averse investors are prone to pay for obtaining summary information such as ratings which reduces ambiguity.
openaire +1 more source
On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are themselves explained by a small number of world factors.
Andrew Powell, Juan Francisco Martínez
openaire +5 more sources
Why rating agencies disagree on sovereign ratings [PDF]
Empirical Economics, 2018 This paper explores why rating agencies disagree on a country’s sovereign default risk. Specifically, we analyse the sovereign ratings of four agencies and their interactions on an empirical basis. Our findings indicate that the frequency of split ratings and their lopsidedness are the result of uncertainty and the use of different rating methodologies
openaire +1 more source
Sovereign ratings and their asymmetric response to fundamentals [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 Abstract The evolution of sovereign ratings is strongly asymmetric, as downgrades tend to be deeper and faster than upgrades. In other words, once a country loses its initial status it takes a long time to recover it. Using S&P data, we characterize “rating cycles” in terms of their duration and amplitude.
Carmen Broto, Luis Molina
openaire +2 more sources