Tiebreaker : Certification and Multiple Credit Ratings

Dion Bongaerts, K.J. Martijn Cremers, William N. Goetzmann

This paper explores the economic role credit rating agencies play in the corporate bond market. We consider three existing theories about multiple ratings: information production, rating shopping and regulatory certification. Using differences in rating composition, default prediction and credit spread changes, our evidence only supports regulatory certification. Marginal, additional credit ratings are more likely to occur because of, and seem to matter primarily for regulatory purposes, but do not seem to provide significant additional information related to credit quality

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Year of publication:	September 2009
Authors:	Bongaerts, Dion
Other Persons:	Cremers, Martijn (contributor) ; Goetzmann, William N. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Kreditwürdigkeit \| Credit rating \| Standardisierung \| Standardization \| Ratingagentur \| Rating agency \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Unternehmensanleihe \| Corporate bond

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