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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
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BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2023 This study analyzed the effects of sovereign rating and corporate governance (CG) on the capital structure of Latin American companies. A multilevel regression model was used for 823 companies listed on major Latin American stock exchanges over the ...
Duterval Jesuka +1 more
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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
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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
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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
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Indonesian Capital Market Review, 2013 Getting sovereign credit rating upgrades and achieving investment grade status are main goals for countries in order to gain lower yield spread and cost of borrowing.
Dwi Anggi Novianti +1 more
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CREDIT RATING AGENCIES AND THEIR EFFECTS: AN ANALYSIS ON BALKAN COUNTRIES
Journal of Process Management and New Technologies, 2021 The financial structure in the world has become more complex with the increase in global capital movements. For this reason, credit rating agencies have emerged as an important component of the financial structure.
Nuh Ekrem Yıldırım +2 more
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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.
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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
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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
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