Creating Credit and Rating it: New Kids on the Block in Post Crisis Global Finance

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  • Grahame Thompson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v16i4.27557

Resumé

This article examines the evolution of Central Bank (CB) activity since the nancial crisis of 2007/8. e huge expansion of CBs balance sheets presents new problems of managing the unwinding of those positions as innovatory policies like quantitative easing are scaled back. is poses problems of institutional credibility and the resilience of CBs as the managers of nancial systems and of sovereign debt. A consequence of these events has been a renewed focus on exactly how sovereign risks are assessed in the new era of central bank led capitalism. e article explores the institutional reaction by the traditional credit ratings agencies and a series of new organizations that are trying to muscle in on the credit ratings business with new metrics of calculation and credit risk assessment. 

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2013-12-11

Citation/Eksport

Thompson, G. (2013). Creating Credit and Rating it: New Kids on the Block in Post Crisis Global Finance. Politik, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v16i4.27557