Prologue : The perils of sleepwalking -- Contextualizing debt : history, morality, and the triple structural dimension -- The nature of sovereign creditworthiness : hierarchy, sovereignty, and responsibility -- Moralizing credit : bad debt, good debt, and the troubled conscience -- pt. I. Debt...

Thanks to an analysis of structural changes in abnormal spread series, we stress specific investors' reactions to rating actions. These reactions are much more usual when the issues are in sterlings than in euros. When reacting in the euro area, investors mainly react after banks' and public...

We assess the effect of securitization activity on banks' loan pricing practices employing a uniquely detailed dataset from the euro-denominated syndicated loan market. We find that in the run up to the 2007-2009 crisis banks that were more active at originating asset-backed securities did not...

A short overview of the regulation -or lack thereof- of Credit Rating Agencies across the US and Europe. The article focuses on the rationale behind the lack of regulation that has characterized credit rating agencies for so many years, and comments on some approaches that have been suggested at...

We quantify to what extent the quality of credit rating predictions improves through integrating measures of corporate social performance (CSP) in an established credit risk model. We provide comprehensive evidence of the comparative informational advantage of considering CSP in predicting...

Using data consisting of Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads, this study examines CDS spreads for nearly all European countries surrounding the August 5th, 2011 Sovereign Credit Rating downgrade of the United States. While U.S. CDS spreads remained at relatively normal levels, we find a surge in...