The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness

By Timothy J Sinclair. 2005

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Sovereign Bonds and the “Democratic Advantage”: Does Regime Type Affect Credit Rating Agency Ratings in the Developing World? (2007, background): “…Ferri, Liu, and Stiglitz 1999; and Setty and Dodd 2003+ 3+ See Cantor and Packer 1996; Vaaler and McNamara 2004; and Vaaler, Schrage, and Block 2005 and 2006+ 4+ Sinclair 2005+ 5+ North and Weingast 1989+ 6+ Schultz and Weingast 1996+ 7+ See Schultz and Weingast 1998 and 2003+ 8+ Tomz 2002+ 9+…”
Sub-prime mortgage lending: a cultural economy (2008, background): “The allocation of a simple letter rating to all MBS, in an evidently expert and objective manner by Moodys, Standard and Poors and Fitch as the principal agencies, creates apparent transparency and comparability for investors (see Sinclair, 2005).”
Making Rules for Global Finance: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation at the Turn of the Millennium (2009, background): “…areas, see Coleman and Underhill 1995; Kapstein 1989; Simmons 2001; Abdelal 2007; and Singer 2007+ 72+ Examples of constructivist arguments include Sinclair 2005; Jabko 2006; and Abdelal 2007+ 73+ McNamara 2002 and 1998+ On the difference between norm-governed and norm-transforming change…”
Moral Views of Market Society (2007, background): “…the dramatic expansion of individual credit reporting (Guseva & Rona-Tas 2001), the new politics of transparency (Best 2005), the rise of corruption ratings (Bukovansky 2006, Larmour 2006), accounting techniques (Miller 2001), financial analysis (Zorn et al. 2004), and bond rating (Sinclair 2005).”
Finding the “Democratic Advantage” in Sovereign Bond Ratings: The Importance of Strong Courts, Property Rights Protection, and the Rule of Law (2012, background): “…The Economist, 4 March 2010+Available at ^http:00www+economist+com0node015606329&+Accessed 24 April 2012+ 21+ Borensztein and Panizza 2008, 29+ 22+ Sinclair 2005+ 23+ Schwarcz 2001, 297+ 518 International Organization Given the importance of sovereign ratings for attracting…”
From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial Consumer Risk Scores and the Making of Subprime Mortgage Finance (2009, background): “…production function necessary to bring securitization and the liquidity advantages that accompany it into being.20 In the securities markets, this function has belonged in large part to third party ratings providers such as Standard & Poor’s, alongside Fitch’s and Moody’s (Sinclair, 2005).”
The Return of the State? (2011, background): “T. Sinclair (2005) The Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), p. 5, cited in B. J. Cohen (2008) International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), p. 117.”
Standardizing and disseminating knowledge: the role of the OECD in global governance (2009, background): “Formal international organizations play an important role in inquisitorial activities, and their activities are supplemented by the work of quasiformal networks such as the G8, and private actors such as international bond rating agencies (see Sinclair, 2005) and international cartels.”
Financial exclusion and the geography of bank and building society branch closure in Britain (2008, background): “Financialization is seen to have agency at a range of scales, including higher levels of instability within the economic system as a whole (2000b, Dore, 2000a) and pressure exerted on corporations by capital markets (Sinclair, 2005).”
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century (2008, background): “Although this is a voluntary, privately operated system, the high costs of opting out make it a powerful regulatory force, much like bond rating (see Sinclair 2005).”