Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias David F. Tennant, Marlon R. Tracey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Markets can become excessively over-reliant on credit ratings. Help in providing us with the sovereign credit rating data. Keywords: Sovereign debt ratings, credit rating agencies, home bias, international finance,cultural distance, culture, bank exposure. Sovereign credit ratings guide over USD 50 trillion in outstanding sovereign debt and set the ceiling for most corporate credit ratings. Support for the existence of a home bias in sovereign ratings. Credit rating agencies have come under increased scrutiny since the financial crisis. Another problem is that certain biases had crept into the credit rating role in rating sovereign debt – bonds issued by national governments. Sovereign debt and set the ceiling for most corporate credit ratings. Steady downgrading of European sovereign debt has led to much criticism, especially from lead it, that their bias tends towards the optimistic side , and. The actions of credit rating agencies have come under intense scrutiny – in Global Financial Crisis and the current sovereign debt crises in Europe. Equation estimates of how regime type affects bond ratings (or interest rates) may run afoul of selection bias. Ratings, Sovereign Debt and Financial Market Volatility. Keywords: Credit Ratings, Home Bias, Municipal Debt, Information However, testing for home bias in ratings of sovereign issuers is. Equity investment bias, we also determine variables to be exclusively relevant for bonds, like sovereign credit ratings and bank credit supply.