How rating agencies achieve rating stability

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2679-2714

  Altman, Edward I ^a   Rijken, Herbert A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Credit scoring models; Default prediction; Migration policy; Rating agencies; Through the cycle rating methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644265058     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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