Regulation, asset complexity, and the informativeness of credit ratings

We show that the effect of regulation on credit rating informativeness depends on asset complexity. Using the Dodd-Frank Act as a shock to the rating industry, we analyze the impact of rating changes on market prices, conditioning on various measures of complexity. Rating informativeness improves af...

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Main Author: Jankowitsch, Rainer (author)
Other Authors: Ottonello, Giorgio (author), Subrahmanyam, Marti G (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/133750
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/133750