Demirgüç-Kunt, AslI; Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry - In: Journal of Financial Intermediation 17 (2008) 4, pp. 511-542
This study finds that banks receive more favorable Moody's financial strength ratings in countries with better compliance with Basel Core Principles related to information provision. The results are robust to controlling for broad indexes of institutional quality, macroeconomic variables,...