Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst "new" EU countries typically have lower ratings than "old" ones, after …