Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings
We investigate whether credit rating agencies are biased towards areas with strong financial centre characteristics, using data for 259 areas from 39 countries for 2004–17. We employ a range of measurements of financial centre characteristics, including a financial centre index, the share of financi...
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2020
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| author | Ioannou, S Wojcik, D Pazitka, V |
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| description | We investigate whether credit rating agencies are biased towards areas with strong financial centre characteristics, using data for 259 areas from 39 countries for 2004–17. We employ a range of measurements of financial centre characteristics, including a financial centre index, the share of financial and business services in an area’s total employment, and revenues from investment banking. For all financial centre proxies, our results confirm the existence of a ‘financial centre bias’ that is statistically and economically significant. For example, cities present in the global financial centre index have a rating about a category higher than would be justified by fundamentals.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6e91572b-2ed7-414c-8470-e50c25082f6a2022-03-26T19:25:19ZFinancial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratingsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6e91572b-2ed7-414c-8470-e50c25082f6aEnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2020Ioannou, SWojcik, DPazitka, VWe investigate whether credit rating agencies are biased towards areas with strong financial centre characteristics, using data for 259 areas from 39 countries for 2004–17. We employ a range of measurements of financial centre characteristics, including a financial centre index, the share of financial and business services in an area’s total employment, and revenues from investment banking. For all financial centre proxies, our results confirm the existence of a ‘financial centre bias’ that is statistically and economically significant. For example, cities present in the global financial centre index have a rating about a category higher than would be justified by fundamentals. |
| spellingShingle | Ioannou, S Wojcik, D Pazitka, V Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
| title | Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
| title_full | Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
| title_fullStr | Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
| title_short | Financial centre bias in sub-sovereign credit ratings |
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