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How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

Bo Becker

出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=S0OytQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S & P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how in fact increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for these findings that are linked to existing theories -- National Bureau of Economic Research web site.