Basel II and fostering the disclosure of banks\' internal credit ratings

ISSN:1566-7529ISSN:1741-620

The roles of rating outlooks : the predictor of creditworthiness and the monitor of recovery efforts

202001 bcrcAuthor’s OriginalPublishe

Market-implied ratings and their divergence from credit ratings

202307 bcwwNot applicableRGCPublished24 month

Competitiveness and concentration of the banking sector as a measure of banks’ credit ratings

The aim of the paper is to verify the impact of the competitiveness of the banking sector and concentration on banks’ credit ratings. A literature review was carried out and as a result the following hypothesis was put forward: the bigger the banks from the countries where the banking sector is more concentrated and more competitive, the higher the banks’ credit ratings. The analysis was conducted using ordered panel data models on banks’ credit ratings with the use of quarterly data on a European banks’ sample. Long-term issuer credit ratings given to banks by the three largest credit rating agencies were used as a dependent variable