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Ratings

2022/2023
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Course type:
Elective course
When:
2 year, 1 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Credit ratings play a crucial role in the decision-making on investment and manage-ment of financial institutions around the world. This course is focused mostly on na-tional and international rating agencies, rating modeling, and scales and processes. A special attention is paid to methodological differences among rating agencies and quantitative techniques of rating scales, as well as government regulatory practices in banking and finance. In addition, this course provides overviews how credit ratings are assigned and used in financial institutions. Finally, it covers issues of using different types of credit ratings, simultaneously.