Machine generated contents note: 1. Credit Rating Agencies as Gatekeepers -- 2. Establishing the Determinants of Sovereign Debt Ratings: Is There Really Room for Bias? -- 3. Resilience in Spite of Controversy: Conditions for Bias in the Credit Rating Industry -- 4. Trends in Sovereign Debt...

Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias rejects the notion that credit rating agencies' rigorous and transparent determination of ratings leaves no room for bias, and debunks the myth that the value CRAs place on their reputational capital precludes prolonged biases. To determine the extent of...