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rating agencies evaluate sovereign credit rates. They illustrate that the regional
specialization or regional focus of the … rating agencies, influence their sovereign risk-ratings, even
on national crisis period. Zaheer and Zaheer (2001) offer … competition in expert organizational decision
making: Credit-Rating agencies and their response to turbulence in emerging …