The role of rating agencies in international financial market

In the context of financial markets globalization, the role of rating agencies and credit ratings expanded sharply. Standard & Poor’s awarded in the late 70’s ratings only for 12 countries and currently it assigned ratings for 129 countries. Global rating agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s...

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Main Author: Emilian-Constantin MIRICESCU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2015-03-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/1068.pdf
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spelling doaj-40c496baafd54fe0bfec45b604c5539e2020-11-24T23:17:07ZengGeneral Association of Economists from RomaniaTheoretical and Applied Economics1841-86781844-00292015-03-01XXII122723218418678The role of rating agencies in international financial marketEmilian-Constantin MIRICESCU0 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania In the context of financial markets globalization, the role of rating agencies and credit ratings expanded sharply. Standard & Poor’s awarded in the late 70’s ratings only for 12 countries and currently it assigned ratings for 129 countries. Global rating agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch publish long term sovereign ratings and short term sovereign ratings. The role of sovereign ratings is the decrease of informational asymmetry between borrowers (countries) – acting as issuers and lenders – acting as investors. In this paper I will analyse sovereign rating definition and I will explain the importance of rating agencies. http://store.ectap.ro/articole/1068.pdf sovereign ratingrating agencyfinancial marketinformational asymmetryglobalization
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The role of rating agencies in international financial market
Theoretical and Applied Economics
sovereign rating
rating agency
financial market
informational asymmetry
globalization
author_facet Emilian-Constantin MIRICESCU
author_sort Emilian-Constantin MIRICESCU
title The role of rating agencies in international financial market
title_short The role of rating agencies in international financial market
title_full The role of rating agencies in international financial market
title_fullStr The role of rating agencies in international financial market
title_full_unstemmed The role of rating agencies in international financial market
title_sort role of rating agencies in international financial market
publisher General Association of Economists from Romania
series Theoretical and Applied Economics
issn 1841-8678
1844-0029
publishDate 2015-03-01
description In the context of financial markets globalization, the role of rating agencies and credit ratings expanded sharply. Standard & Poor’s awarded in the late 70’s ratings only for 12 countries and currently it assigned ratings for 129 countries. Global rating agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch publish long term sovereign ratings and short term sovereign ratings. The role of sovereign ratings is the decrease of informational asymmetry between borrowers (countries) – acting as issuers and lenders – acting as investors. In this paper I will analyse sovereign rating definition and I will explain the importance of rating agencies.
topic sovereign rating
rating agency
financial market
informational asymmetry
globalization
url http://store.ectap.ro/articole/1068.pdf
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