'Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine'
Abstract
The article proves the ambiguous role of rating in the mechanism of economic transformations as the most important instrument, which norms the process of consolidation of significant volumes of information and acquires an opportunity to influence the choice of actors in implementation of economic transformations. The authors allocate the functions of ratings, among which are: basic (analytical, gradual, signaling, and substantiating); derived (reduction of information asymmetry, reduction of transaction costs), and deemed (materialized through the perception of ratings as a means of competition between the subjects of rating process, as a means of attracting investments and as a means of comparison of the potential of economic development of different objects of rating). The peculiarities of the expert-analytical procedure of rating are considered, on the basis of which the possibility of intentional and unintentional manipulating its results is substantiated, the factors of this process are determined. A polysystem of ratings of the modern economy is built, new classifications of ratings by the content structure, by the level of data generalization, and also by subjects of development and quantity of constituents, are presented
