Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53646 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 241
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
The present analysis sheds light on the setting up a regional rating agency in Asia in the wake of recent financial crisis. We investigate the policy facing a financial regulator while evaluating whether or not to admit new entrants into the credit rating market. In an incomplete contracting framework, we show that an impartial financial regulatory body (represented by a benevolent supranational organization) can facilitate credit ratings of high quality by allowing for the entry of new rating agencies on a non-single basis than it does for a mere single entry. This finding is caused by increased competition among the rating agencies, which induces higher quality of rating services even should rating agencies still exert below their maximum level of efforts.
JEL: 
D43
D82
G24
L15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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