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1. The new masters of capital
: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness
by Sinclair, Timothy J
2005, 1, Cornell studies in political economy, ISBN 9780801443282, xiii, 186
InThe New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy-the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized... 
Rating agencies (Finance) | Ratings and rankings | Bonds | Credit ratings | United States | Finance | Ratings | Political Science | Political Economy | Investments & Securities | POLITICAL SCIENCE | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
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2. Full Text Market structure and rating strategies in credit rating markets – A dynamic model with matching of heterogeneous bond issuers and rating agencies
by Fischer, Thomas
Journal of Banking and Finance, ISSN 0378-4266, 09/2015, Volume 58, pp. 39 - 56
This paper investigates the impact of rating agencies in a market with asymmetric information. In particular, the role of credit rating agencies as an... 
Rating agencies | Market structure | Rating smoothing | BUSINESS, FINANCE | ANNOUNCEMENTS | DEFAULT SWAP | CERTIFICATION | ECONOMICS | Rating agencies (Securities) | Financial analysis | Bonds | Credit ratings | C63 | Economics and Business | Social Sciences | Företagsekonomi | rating agencies | market structure | Ekonomi och näringsliv | G24 | L11 | L14 | Samhällsvetenskap | rating smoothing | Business Administration | D83
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3. The new masters of capital
: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness
by Sinclair, Timothy J
2005, Cornell studies in political economy, ISBN 9780801443282, xiii, 186
Rating agencies (Finance) | Ratings and rankings | Bonds | Credit ratings
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4. The rating game
: report
by Petersen, John E and Twentieth Century Fund. Task Force on Municipal Bond Credit Ratings
1974, ISBN 9780870781315, vii, 161
Municipal bonds | Ratings and rankings
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5. Full Text Markets: The Credit Rating Agencies
by White, Lawrence J
The Journal of Economic Perspectives, ISSN 0895-3309, 2010, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 211 - 226
This paper will explore how the financial regulatory structure propelled three credit rating agencies—Moody's, Standard & Poor's (S&P), and Fitch—to the center... 
Bond markets | Bond rating | Insurance regulation | Industrial regulation | Mortgage bonds | Securities and Exchange Commission regulation | Economic regulation | Credit ratings | Financial securities | Features | Banking regulation | ECONOMICS | Financial markets | Laws, regulations and rules | Analysis | Studies | Rating services | Business models | Regulation of financial institutions | Mortgages | Economic crisis
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6. Full Text Structural Shifts in Credit Rating Standards
by AYSUN ALP
The Journal of Finance, ISSN 0022-1082, 12/2013, Volume 68, Issue 6, pp. 2435 - 2470
I examine the time-series variation in corporate credit rating standards from 1985 to 2007. A divergent pattern exists between investment-grade and... 
Long term debt | Debt | Corporate bonds | Variable coefficients | Credit ratings | Credit risk | Coefficients | Yield curves | Business structures | Standard and Poors 500 Index | BUSINESS, FINANCE | DISAPPEARING DIVIDENDS | CAPITAL STRUCTURE | RISK | ECONOMICS | DEBT | BOND | VOLATILITY | Ratings & rankings | Standards
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7. Full Text Sovereign Bonds and the "Democratic Advantage": Does Regime Type Affect Credit Rating Agency Ratings in the Developing World?
by Archer, Candace C and Biglaiser, Glen and DeRouen, Karl
International Organization, ISSN 0020-8183, 4/2007, Volume 61, Issue 2, pp. 341 - 365
The importance of sovereign bond ratings has grown recently as assessments by credit rating agencies (CRAs) influence the cost of capital. Understanding how... 
Debt repayment | Bond rating | Investors | Developing countries | Democracy | Trade development | Executive branch | Bond default | Gross domestic product | Political parties | INSTITUTIONS | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | COMMITMENT | GOVERNANCE | COMPETITION | CRISIS | SPREADS | LATIN-AMERICA | DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES | INFLOWS | Evaluation | Credit bureaus | Financial analysis | Credit ratings | Rating agencies (Securities) | Government securities | Securities | Information services industry | Credit | Panel data | Inflation | Political science | Bonds | Ratings & rankings | Rating | Political factors | Bond issues | Developing countries--LDCs | Bond ratings
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8. Full Text Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages: Application to European data
by Afonso, António and Furceri, Davide and Gomes, Pedro
Journal of International Money and Finance, ISSN 0261-5606, 04/2012, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 606 - 638
We use EU sovereign bond yield and CDS spreads daily data to carry out an event study analysis on the reaction of government yield spreads before and after... 
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9. Full Text Can investor-paid credit rating agencies improve the information quality of issuer-paid rating agencies?
by Xia, Han
Journal of Financial Economics, ISSN 0304-405X, 02/2014, Volume 111, Issue 2, pp. 450 - 468
This paper examines how the information quality of ratings from an issuer-paid rating agency (Standard and Poor's) responds to the entry of an investor-paid... 
Information quality | Investor-paid rating agencies | Credit ratings | BUSINESS, FINANCE | MARKET | CORPORATE-DEBT | RISK | ECONOMICS | BOND | DEFAULT | Evaluation | Rating agencies (Securities) | Wages | Credit bureaus | Media coverage
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10. Full Text The economic function of credit rating agencies – What does the watchlist tell us?
by Bannier, Christina E and Hirsch, Christian W
Journal of Banking and Finance, ISSN 0378-4266, 2010, Volume 34, Issue 12, pp. 3037 - 3049
Credit rating agencies do not only disclose simple ratings but announce watchlists (rating reviews) and outlooks as well. This paper analyzes the economic... 
Event study | Rating review | Credit rating | Credit rating agencies | Watchlist | ANNOUNCEMENTS | STABILITY | STOCK-PRICES | BUSINESS, FINANCE | IMPACT | MODELS | DEFAULT SWAP | ECONOMICS | BOND | DURATION | CYCLE | Credit rating agencies Credit rating Watchlist Rating review Event study | Rating agencies (Securities) | Watch lists (Antiterrorism measures) | Credit bureaus | Credit ratings | Watchlists
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11. Industrial bonds and the rating process
by Riahi-Belkaoui, Ahmed, 1943
1983, ISBN 0899300464, xii, 198
Ratings and rankings | Bonds
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12. Full Text Rating-based CDS curves
by Kolokolova, Olga and Lin, Ming-Tsung and Poon, Ser-Huang
The European Journal of Finance, ISSN 1351-847X, 05/2019, Volume 25, Issue 7, pp. 689 - 723
This paper explores the extent to which term structure of individual credit default swap (CDS) spreads can be explained by the firm's rating. Using the... 
CDS term structure | trading strategy | G11 | G24 | Credit default swap | credit rating | G17 | BUSINESS, FINANCE | LIQUIDITY | IMPACT | TERM STRUCTURE | RISK | SPREADS | AGENCIES | DEBT | Collateralized loan obligations | Spread | Bond issues | Credit default swaps
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13. Full Text Do Rating Agencies Benefit from Providing Higher Ratings? Evidence from the Consequences of Municipal Bond Ratings Recalibration
by BEATTY, ANNE and GILLETTE, JACQUELYN and PETACCHI, REINING and WEBER, JOSEPH
Journal of Accounting Research, ISSN 0021-8456, 05/2019, Volume 57, Issue 2, pp. 323 - 354
ABSTRACT We ask whether credit rating agencies receive higher fees and gain greater market share when they provide more favorable ratings. To investigate this... 
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14. Full Text Ratings shopping and asset complexity: A theory of ratings inflation
by Skreta, Vasiliki and Veldkamp, Laura
Journal of Monetary Economics, ISSN 0304-3932, 2009, Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 678 - 695
Many identify inflated credit ratings as one contributor to the recent financial-market turmoil. We develop an equilibrium model of the market for ratings and... 
Rating agencies | Disclosure | Information acquisition | BUSINESS, FINANCE | MARKETS | EQUILIBRIUM | ECONOMICS | Rating agencies Information acquisition Disclosure | Inflation (Finance) | Analysis | Securities offerings
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15. Full Text How did increased competition affect credit ratings?
by Becker, Bo and Milbourn, Todd
Journal of Financial Economics, ISSN 0304-405X, 2011, Volume 101, Issue 3, pp. 493 - 514
The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's, leading to long-standing legislative and... 
Competition and reputation | Information quality | Credit ratings | REPUTATIONAL INCENTIVES | CAREER CONCERNS | BUSINESS, FINANCE | INFORMATION | ECONOMICS | BOND | Credit ratings Competition and reputation Information quality | Competition (Economics) | Rating agencies (Securities)
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16. Full Text Rating Politics? Partisan Discrimination in Credit Ratings in Developed Economies
by Barta, Zsófia and Johnston, Alison
Comparative Political Studies, ISSN 0010-4140, 4/2018, Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 587 - 620
How does government partisanship influence sovereign credit ratings of developed countries? Given the convergence of fiscal and monetary outcomes between left... 
political economy | sovereign credit ratings | business and politics | BOND SPREADS | DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGE | MARKETS | RISK | FISCAL-POLICY | SOVEREIGN DEBT | INSTITUTIONS | ELECTIONS | POLITICAL SCIENCE | DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES | GOVERNMENTS | Rating services | Developed countries | Left wing politics | Bias | Industrialized nations | Rating | Markets | Economic development | International finance | Elections | Partisanship | Credit | Discrimination | Ratings & rankings | Credit ratings | International economic organizations
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17. Full Text HOW DO RATING AGENCIES’ DECISIONS IMPACT STOCK MARKETS? A META‐ANALYSIS
by Hubler, Jérôme and Louargant, Christine and Laroche, Patrice and Ory, Jean‐Noёl
Journal of Economic Surveys, ISSN 0950-0804, 09/2019, Volume 33, Issue 4, pp. 1173 - 1198
The purpose of this study is to examine how credit rating agencies’ decisions impact the stock market using a systematic and quantitative review of existing... 
Stock returns | Event study | Meta‐analysis | Rating agencies’ decisions | Meta-analysis | PRICES | RETURNS | RISK | Rating agencies' decisions | CREDIT RATINGS | MODELS | CREDIBILITY | PRODUCTIVITY | INFORMATIONAL CONTENT | ECONOMICS | BOND | Stock exchanges | Securities markets | Economics and Finance | Humanities and Social Sciences
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18. Full Text Credit Ratings and Capital Structure
by Darren J. Kisgen
The Journal of Finance, ISSN 0022-1082, 6/2006, Volume 61, Issue 3, pp. 1035 - 1072
This paper examines to what extent credit ratings directly affect capital structure decisions. The paper outlines discrete costs (benefits) associated with... 
Debt | Variable coefficients | Debt to equity ratio | Tradeoffs | Credit ratings | Financial leverage | Equity | Coefficients | Capital structure | Credit scores | CHOICE | BUSINESS, FINANCE | MODELS | BOND RATINGS | INFORMATION | ECONOMICS | DEBT | AGENCIES | Influence | Analysis
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