Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System
Authors: Levich, Richard M., Majnoni, Giovanni, Reinhart, Carmen
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Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System brings together the research of economists at New York University and the University of Maryland, along with those from the private sector, government bodies, and other universities. The first section of the volume focuses on the historical origins of the credit rating business and its present day industrial organization structure. The second section presents several empirical studies crafted largely around individual firm-level or bank-level data. These studies examine (a) the relationship between ratings and the default and recovery experience of corporate borrowers, (b) the comparability of credit ratings made by domestic and foreign rating agencies, and (c) the usefulness of financial market indicators for rating banks, among other topics. In the third section, the record of sovereign credit ratings in predicting financial crises and the reaction of financial markets to changes in credit ratings is examined. The final section of the volume emphasizes policy issues now facing regulators and credit rating agencies.
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Introduction: Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System: Summary and Policy Implications
Pages 1-15
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An Historical Primer on the Business of Credit Rating
Pages 19-40
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The Credit Rating Industry: An Industrial Organization Analysis
Pages 41-63
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The Paradox of Credit Ratings
Pages 65-84
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Discussion
Pages 85-88
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System
- Authors
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- Richard M. Levich
- Giovanni Majnoni
- Carmen Reinhart
- Series Title
- The New York University Salomon Center Series on Financial Markets and Institutions
- Series Volume
- 9
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-0999-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-0999-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-7016-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-5344-7
- Series ISSN
- 1387-6899
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 379
- Topics
