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Investor-Paid Credit Ratings and Conflicts of Interest
Credit ratings provide information regarding a company’s default probability. Ratings are relied upon extensively in regulation and private contracting and play a crucial role in the functioning of the capital markets. However, since the major credit rating agencies (CRAs) operate …