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Testing for Rating Consistency in Annual Default Rates

Richard Cantor and Eric Falkenstein
The Journal of Fixed Income Fall 2001, 11 (2) 36-51; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2001.319296
Richard Cantor
Managing director of Ratings Research & Analysis at Moody's Investors Service in New York, NY.
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Formerly an analyst at Moody's Investors Services. He is now working for a hedge fund at Deephaven Capital Management in Minnetonka, MN. he may be contacted at efalken@deephavenfunds.com.
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We examine issues in testing whether default rates by credit rating categories are consistent across sectors or consistent over time. Our main findings are that sector and macroeconomic shocks inflate the sample standard deviations, compared to using a simple binomial default probability, and we provide a closed form solution that addresses this problem. We apply these results to two well-known cases: testing rating consistency across regions (U.S. versus non-U.S. companies) and across industries (banks versus nonbanks).

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