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Deriving Consensus Ratings of the Big Three Rating Agencies

This paper introduces a model framework for dynamic credit rating processes. Our framework aggregates ordinal rating information stemming from a variety of rating sources. The dynamic of the consensus rating captures systematic as well as idiosyncratic changes. In addition, our framework allows to validate the different rating sources by analyzing the mean/variance structure of the rating deviations.
In an empirical study for the iTraxx Europe companies rated by the big three external rating agencies we use Bayesian techniques to estimate the consensus ratings for these companies.
The advantages are illustrated by comparing our dynamic rating model to a naive benchmark model. (authors' abstract)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:4052
Date27 March 2013
CreatorsGrün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Hornik, Kurt, Leitner, Christoph, Pichler, Stefan
PublisherIncisive Financial Publishing
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
Relationhttp://www.risk.net/journal-credit-risk/2253183/deriving-consensus-ratings-big-three-rating-agencies, http://epub.wu.ac.at/4052/

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