ハギワラ　モトヒロ   Hagiwara Motohiro   萩原　統宏    所属   明治大学  商学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2010/08
形態種別	学術雑誌
標題	Which rating agency achieved rating stability, Moody’s and R&I? - Empirical study using an Artificial Neural Network -
執筆形態	共著(筆頭者)
掲載誌名	Lecture Notes in Management Science
巻・号・頁	2,pp.57-77
著者・共著者	Katsuaki Tanaka,Hideki Katsuda,Susumu Saitou
概要	The distribution of ratings changes plays a crucial role in many credit risk models. As is well-known, these distributions vary across time and different issuer types. Ignoring such dependencies may lead to inaccurate assessments of credit risk. We introduce a new approach to improve the performance of rating prediction models for multinational corporations. In the last decade, neural networks have emerged from an esoteric instrument in academic research to a rather common tool assisting auditors, investors, portfolio managers and investment advisors in making critical financial decisions. It is apparent that a better understanding of the network's performance and limitations would help both researchers and practitioners in analysing real-world problems. The objectives of this research is to verify the effectiveness of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and examine and compare the stability of rating structures of rating agencies in the United States and Japan. Method to predict corporate ratings by public quantitative information in a inter-temporally stable manner would be useful from the perspective of cost-benefit performance especially in recent rapidly changing economic situation. We find that ANNs has more explanatory power in many cases than models by previous research and that R&I and Moody’s changed rating structure significantly in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
ISSN	2008-0050