19.01 Credit rating agencies (CRAs) play a key role in financial markets, helping to reduce information asymmetry between investors and issuers by providing an independent assessment of the relative creditworthiness of countries or companies. Their role has expanded significantly in recent decades with financial globalization, the introduction of references to credit ratings in regulations, and the embedding by market participants of ratings in their operating procedures, investment decisions, and contracts. Although CRAs’ ratings provided fairly robust and...
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