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                                                                                                                Overview of Credit Ratings                                                                                Kenneth Eades, Ryan N Benedict                                       
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Publication Date: Aug 04, 2003                                            Discipline: Finance                                                Source: Darden School of Business

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description                This is a Darden case study.
                This note is a brief summary of how credit-rating agencies do their job. It includes historical information on rates and capital spreads. The note serves as useful supplementary reading, for students encounteing, for the first time, bonds in a capital-structure case, a capital-markets case, or a cost-of-capital case. The note is designed for undergraduate and executive audiences.
               
                subjects covered:                Finance; Risk analysis

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