Many U.S. corporations operate internationally. For instance, S&P 500 firms generate approximately 29 percent of their sales in foreign markets (Brzenk 2018). Multinational corporations (MNCs) rely on information about their operations to allocate resources. This information is dispersed within...

We investigate the informational roles of foreign ownership in local credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the Chinese onshore debt market, which was the world's largest emerging debt market from 2008 to 2017. We find a robust negative relationship between the bond offering yield and foreign...