Rating Inflation versus Deflation: On Procyclical Credit Ratings
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rating inflation; rating deflation; procyclical rating;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2013-11-09 (Central Banking)
- NEP-CTA-2013-11-09 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-MAC-2013-11-09 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MIC-2013-11-09 (Microeconomics)
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