Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155746 
Year of Publication: 
2014
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[Journal:] Intereconomics [ISSN:] 1613-964X [Volume:] 49 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2014 [Pages:] 340-347
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Competence behind sovereign ratings is crucial, given that the government bond market may be vulnerable to multiple equilibria and self-fulfilling prophecies. With this in mind, this paper reviews and scrutinises official Standard & Poor's publications that address key issues surrounding the government bond market and the role of ratings. It presents a lack of competence, revealed in an inadequate grasp of crucial concepts such as multiple equilibria and self-fulfilling prophecy, obliviousness to Standard and Poor's own rating methodology, and a nonchalant treatment of facts that casts a poor light on the agency's integrity.
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