Aggregate confusion: The divergence of ESG ratings

F Berg, JF Koelbel, R Rigobon - Review of Finance, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates the divergence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)
ratings based on data from six prominent ESG rating agencies: Kinder, Lydenberg, and …

Credit rating agencies: An overview

LJ White - Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ., 2013 - annualreviews.org
Credit rating agencies (CRAs) play a central role in the debt (bond) markets of many
countries. CRAs have also attracted a considerable amount of public and policy attention …

Is sell‐side research more valuable in bad times?

RK Loh, RM Stulz - The journal of finance, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Because uncertainty is high in bad times, investors find it harder to assess firm prospects
and hence should value analyst output more. However, higher uncertainty makes analysts' …

Monitoring and corporate disclosure: Evidence from a natural experiment

RM Irani, D Oesch - Journal of Financial Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Using an experimental design that exploits exogenous reductions in coverage resulting from
brokerage house mergers, we find that a reduction in coverage causes a deterioration in …

Analyst coverage and real earnings management: Quasi-experimental evidence

RM Irani, D Oesch - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2016 - cambridge.org
We study how securities analysts influence managers' use of different types of earnings
management. To isolate causality, we employ a quasi-experiment that exploits exogenous …

Nudgitize me! A behavioral finance approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from heuristics and biases

J Puaschunder - International Journal of Management …, 2018 - techmindresearch.org
Behavioral Finance is one of the most novel developments in Behavioral Economics. Since
the end of the 1970ies a wide range of psychological, economic and sociological laboratory …

Does the scope of the sell‐side analyst industry matter? An examination of bias, accuracy, and information content of analyst reports

K Merkley, R Michaely, J Pacelli - The Journal of Finance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We examine changes in the scope of the sell‐side analyst industry and whether these
changes impact information dissemination and the quality of analysts' reports. Our findings …

Can investor-paid credit rating agencies improve the information quality of issuer-paid rating agencies?

H ** or catering? An examination of the response to competitive pressure for CDO credit ratings
JM Griffin, J Nickerson, DY Tang - The Review of Financial …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We examine whether “rating shop**” or “rating catering” is a more accurate
characterization of rating agency interactions regarding collateralized debt obligations …