Emerging Market Risk and Sovereign Credit Ratings:

In principle, the sovereign credit rating industry could help mitigate the congestion externalities common to world capital markets that arise from the failure of market participants to internalise the social cost of external borrowings. This would require that modifications in ratings on government...

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1. Verfasser: Larraín, Guillermo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Reisen, Helmut (MitwirkendeR), von Maltzan, Julia (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 1997
Schriftenreihe:OECD Development Centre Working Papers
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Zusammenfassung:In principle, the sovereign credit rating industry could help mitigate the congestion externalities common to world capital markets that arise from the failure of market participants to internalise the social cost of external borrowings. This would require that modifications in ratings on government bonds convey new information to market participants, with changes in credit ratings leading to changes in country risk premia. Using panel data analysis and event studies this paper presents econometric evidence that changes in credit rating have a significant impact on international financial markets. In line with earlier studies, our event study finds a highly significant announcement effect when emerging-market sovereign bonds are put on review with negative outlook. Our findings imply that the sovereign rating industry has the potential to help dampen excessive private capital inflows into the emerging markets with negative rating announcements ...
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/004352173554

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