Can Market Discipline Work in the Case of Rating Agencies? Some Lessons from Moody’s Stock Price
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Rating agencies; Rating quality; Oligopoly; Market discipline; Reputational capital; G2;All these keywords.
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- G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
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