Market Discipline through Credit Ratings and Too‐Big‐to‐Fail in Banking

Market - based Credit Ratings ∗

We present a methodology for rating the creditworthiness of public companies in the U.S. from the prices of traded assets. Our approach uses asset pricing data to impute a term structure of risk neutral survival functions or default probabilities. Firms are then clustered into ratings categories based on their survival functions using a functional clustering algorithm. This allows all public fi...

Credit Ratings and Market Dynamics

Rating agencies provide opinions on the creditworthiness of companies and debt instruments, and so reduce lenders’ information gathering costs. Their ratings are especially useful in distinguishing the relative riskiness of different borrowers. Empirical evidence suggests that rating agencies rank the riskiness of borrowers well: realised default rates are consistently higher for lower rating g...

Market Discipline in Banking Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Switzerland

Credit ratings and cross-border bond market spillovers ¬リニ

This paper studies spillovers across sovereign debt markets in the wake of sovereign rating changes. We compile an extensive dataset covering all announcements by the three major agencies (Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch) and daily sovereign bond market movements of up to 73 developed and emerging countries between 1994 and 2011. To cleanly identify the existence of spillover effects, we perf...

Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains

The reaction of EU bond and equity market volatilities to sovereign rating announcements (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch) is investigated using a panel of daily stock market and sovereign bond returns. The parametric volatilities are defined using EGARCH specifications. The estimation results show that upgrades do not have significant effects on volatility, but downgrades increase stock ...