The alchemy of CDO credit ratings

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-634

  Benmelech, Efraim ^a,b   Dlugosz, Jennifer ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateralized loan obligations; Credit rating; Leveraged buyouts securitization

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049093019     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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