Information Content of Unsolicited Ratings: A Theory
Preprint
- 1 January 2011
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We develop a model to analyze firms' incentives to solicit credit ratings to signal their quality and the incentive of a rating agency to issue unsolicited ratiKeywords
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