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Credit ratings and structured finance
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm Business School. Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden.
Number of Authors: 22020 (English)In: Journal of Financial Intermediation, ISSN 1042-9573, E-ISSN 1096-0473, Vol. 41, article id 100816Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The poor performance of credit ratings of structured finance products in the financial crisis has prompted investigation into the role of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in designing and marketing these products. We analyze a two-period reputation model in which a CRA both designs and rates securities that are sold both to investors who are constrained to purchase highly rated securities and investors who are unconstrained. Assets are pooled and senior and junior tranches are issued with a waterfall structure. When the rating constraint is lax, the CRA will include only risky assets in the securitization pool, serving both types of investors without any rating inflation. Rating inflation is decreasing in the tightness of the rating constraint locally. But rating inflation may be non-monotonic in the rating constraint globally, with no rating inflation when the constraint is lax or tight.

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2020. Vol. 41, article id 100816
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Credit rating agencies, Reputation, Structured finance
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Economics and Business
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180496DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2019.03.003ISI: 000518501900003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-180496DiVA, id: diva2:1421175
Available from: 2020-04-02 Created: 2020-04-02 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved

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