Baum, Christopher F.; Karpava, Margarita; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2013
French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011 … bond's yields, although Germany's rating status was never touched by CRA. There is no evidence for Granger causality from … bond yields to rating announcements. We infer from these findings that CRA announcements significantly influenced crisis …