The inflation expectations channel of the transmission mechanism is generally recognised as crucial for the implementation of modern monetary policy. This paper briefly reviews the practices commonly employed for measuring inflation expectations in South Africa, and offers an additional method,...

This study investigates the state, development and drivers of banking market integration in the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of national retail interest rates indicates increasing integration in loan and deposit...

This dissertation consists of three essays linking the business models of rating agencies to the rating decisions these agencies make as market intermediaries between buyers and sellers.The first study examines the link between a rating agency‟s primary revenue source and its rating decisions....

Die seit Sommer 2007 anhaltende Krise an den weltweiten Finanzmärkten, welche mittlerweile andere Wirtschaftszweige wie etwa den Automobilsektor infiziert hat, ist auch auf die Tätigkeit zumindest der großen US-Ratingagenturen zurückzuführen. Strukturierte Forderungen wurden zu positiv...

CMBS are an important segment of the real estate debt markets which reduce the commercial property sector's dependence on bank financing. Until the advent of the credit squeeze in Q3:2007, the CMBS market was one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing sectors in the capital markets, for a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative study of prediction performances of an artificial neutral network (ANN) model against a linear prediction model like a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with regards to forecasting corporate credit ratings from financial...

This paper investigates the ratio of general long-term debt to general capital assets’ influence on municipal credit ratings – signals of risk to investors – and coupon rates. Given current uncertainty levels in credit markets, it is paramount that low risk be signaled to sell debt and...

Šiame darbe nustatomas AB „VST“ kredito reitingas. Remiantis tarptautinių kredito reitingo agentūrų Moody‘s bei Standard Poor‘s sukurtomis metodikomis, įvertinama elektros skirstymo bei tiekimo reguliuojamų paslaugų įmonės rizika. Nustačius kredito reitingo įverčius,...

Within the context of a banking institution, economic capital is a statistical measure of the amount of resources required to meet unexpected losses over a specified time period and specified level of certainty. The amount of economic capital held by banks is thus a function of their target...

The paper explores the development of the Australian Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) market from 1999 to 2006 and outlines similarities and dissimilarities with the United States (US) and European (EU) CMBS markets. Whilst the US has been the market leader in terms of issuance...