Do personal connections improve sovereign credit ratings?

Patrycja Klusak; John Thornton; Yurtsev Uymaz

doi:10.1016/j.frl.2019.05.012

Do personal connections improve sovereign credit ratings?

Patrycja Klusak^*
, John Thornton
, Yurtsev Uymaz

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In a large sample of sovereign debt issues, we show that a personal connection between senior executives in credit rating agencies and leading politicians in the sovereign results in an improved rating. A test on bond yields suggest that the personal connection reflects a favorable treatment of the issuer.

Original language	English
Article number	101194
Journal	Finance Research Letters
Volume	33
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.05.012
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

Keywords

Information asymmetries
Personal connections
Sovereign credit ratings

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Finance

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