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

By Adam Harmes. Perspectives on Politics, 2005

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Sovereign Debt and Regime Type: Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage (2012, background): “…“distant third” relative to Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s+ T+ Sinclair 2003+ 16+ See Rodrik 1997; Häusler 2002; Rudra 2002; Rudra and Haggard 2005; and Das 2006+ 17+ Sinclair 2005, 23+ 18+ For more detailed information on the evolution of CRAs, see Sinclair 2005+ 19+ According to Cantor and…”
The Capitalization of Almost Everything (2007, background): “…within the economic system as a whole (Dore, 2000), through the pressure exerted on corporations in capital markets (Froud et al, 2006; Pike, 2006; Sinclair, 2005), to the equity effects of the financial system on individuals and households (Froud et al, 2005; Langley, 2006; Martin, 2002).”
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.”
A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis (2009, background): “In turn, internal risk assessment systems were underwritten by privatised quasi-regulatory bodies such as credit rating and international bond rating agencies (Sinclair, 2005).”
The political economy of International Accounting Standards (2006, background): “In this process, as Sinclair (2005) has shown, the credit rating agencies have become an exemplar of private authority.”
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).”