Do Rating Agencies Benefit from Providing Higher Ratings? Evidence from the Consequences of Municipal Bond Ratings Recalibration

© University of Chicago on behalf of the Accounting Research Center, 2019 We ask whether credit rating agencies receive higher fees and gain greater market share when they provide more favorable ratings. To investigate this question, we use the 2010 rating scale recalibration by Moody's and Fit...

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Main Authors: BEATTY, ANNE, GILLETTE, JACQUELYN, PETACCHI, REINING, WEBER, JOSEPH
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136534