the manual extraction of more than 4000 reviews generated on TripAdvisor. The data used in this study were collected from … the TripAdvisor website, taking, as a sample, tourists who had visited the city in the last three years. Ratings that did … enhance the appeal of those attractions that receive the best ratings, establishing the true vocation of Marbella as a tourist …

Credit ratings are ordinal predictions for the default risk of an obligor. To evaluate the accuracy of such predictions … dataset. All procedures are illustrated in the empirical section using a dataset of S&P Long Term Credit Ratings. …

Can corporate governance ratings reduce problems of asymmetric information between companies and investors? To answer … this question, we set out to examine the information basis for providing such ratings by reviewing corporate governance … ratings as a means to reduce asymmetric information in a more general manner. We propose that the rating process may be seen …

) on market dynamics. This impact can be seen as a consequence of the information content of the ratings themselves or … indirectly as a consequence of the "hardwiring" of ratings into regulatory rules, management mandates, bond covenants, etc …