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| Title: | | The economics of rating watchlists: evidence from rating changes  |
| Authors: | | Hirsch, Christian Bannier, Christina E. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 88 |
| Abstract: | | Generally, information provision and certification have been identified as the major economic functions of rating agencies. This paper analyzes whether the watchlist (rating review) instrument has extended the agencies' role towards a monitoring position, as proposed by Boot, Milbourn, and Schmeits (2006). Using a data set of Moody's ratings between 1982 and 2004, we find that the overall information content of rating action has indeed increased due to the introduction of the watchlist procedure. Our findings suggest that rating reviews help to establish implicit monitoring contracts between agencies and borrowers and as such enable a finer partition of rating information, thereby contributing to a higher information quality. |
| Subjects: | | Credit rating agencies watchlist market reactions event study |
| JEL: | | G14 G29 G33 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008082938 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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