Credible ratings

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 325-365

  Ettore, Damiano ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Wing, Suen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Centralized rating; Credibility; Decentralized rating; Individual rating; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 53749084298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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