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A Novel IBA-DE Hybrid Approach for Modeling Sovereign Credit Ratings
Mathematics, 2022 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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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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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
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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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KEY DETERMINANTS OF LITHUANIA’S SOVEREIGN CREDIT RATING
Ekonomika, 2011 The topic concerning the determinants affecting sovereign credit ratings of a country became extremely relevant after the recent economic turbulence which brought relentless downgrades, especially for Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in their
Aušra Pačebutaitė
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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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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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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012 In this work we deal with the question of whether the evaluation of selected rating agencies is equivalent in some sense or not and whether it is possible to find a relationship between assessments. The fact that rating agencies affect not only financial
Kateřina Myšková, David Hampel
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Sovereign Credit Ratings and Asian Financial Markets
E+M Ekonomie a Management, 2021 Each region/country seeks to become more efficient to gain the confidence of potential investors. Most of the Asian economies are categorized as emerging markets, where the role of financial markets has even become more intensified to provide financial services to increasing economic and financial activities.
Pervaiz, Khansa +4 more
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