Has the crisis affected the behavior of the rating agencies? Panel evidence from the Eurozone

Periklis Boumparis, Costas Milas and Theodore Panagiotidis

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 118-124

Abstract: We examine the determinants of credit ratings for the Eurozone countries over the period 2002–2013 within a panel framework that allows for cross-sectional dependence. We find that government debt and the cumulative current account exert a stronger impact on ratings post-2008 compared to the period before.

Keywords: Credit ratings; Sovereign debt; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C5 F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.011

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