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First-mover Disadvantage: The Sovereign Ratings Mousetrap
Social Science Research Network, 2021 Using 102 sovereigns rated by the three largest credit rating agencies (CRA), S&P, Moody’s and Fitch between January 2000 and January 2019, we are the first to document that the first- mover CRA (S&P) in downgrades falls into a commercial trap.
Patrycja Klusak, M. Kraemer, Huong Vu
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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
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İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Sovereign credit ratings have gained importance in financial markets. Sovereign ratings have the function of providing necessary information in a common language between market participants who need funds and investors.
Merve Kırkıl
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Sovereign ratings and national culture [PDF]
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2020 Abstract Default by sovereign governments depends upon their willingness to default and the nation's capacity to pay. These are major factors considered by rating analysts and both may be affected by national culture. We hypothesise that ratings are related to culture and empirically examine the relation between culture and both levels and changes in
H. Dang, G. Partington
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COUNTRY RISK AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY: A VUCA WORLD APPROACH [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2023 The last three years were characterized by a climate of drastic change due to a cumulus of disturbances and crises, namely the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, energy crisis, military conflicts, banking fragilities, populism, disinformation, and the idea ...
Ioana-Sorina ANDREICA (MIHUT) +1 more
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Credit rating announcement and bond liquidity: the case of emerging bond markets [PDF]
Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Science, 2022 Purpose – This study examines the effect of the informational content of local credit rating announcements in emerging markets on the liquidity of their bond markets.
Amir Saadaoui +2 more
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Sovereign Credit Rating Mismatches [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 We study the factors behind split ratings in sovereign credit ratings from different agencies, for the period 1980-2015. We employ random effects ordered and simple probit approaches to assess the explanatory power of different macroeconomic, government and financial variables. Our results show that structural balances and the existence of a default in
Afonso, António +2 more
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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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Informal Sector, ICT Dynamics, and the Sovereign Cost of Debt: A Machine Learning Approach
Computation, 2023 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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A motivation for banks in emerging economies to adapt agency ratings when assessing corporate credit
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2019 Background: This article considers whether South African banks should utilise the credit ratings provided by US-based credit rating agencies when assessing the creditworthiness of corporate borrowers.
Tanja Verster +4 more
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