Ratingagenturen zwischen Krise und Regulierung

Never before has so much critical public attention been focused on credit ratings and credit rating agencies than in recent years. From a sociological perspective, this volume, now available in its second edition, endeavours to explain the crises which credit rating agencies contributed to and then suffered the consequences of, and the political negotiations conducted to regulate such agencies in the aftermath of those crises. It provides an overview of the process of issuing credit ratings, including the methods employed to do so, and offers an insight into the credit rating industry as a whole.