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work_ez3sps3eubcgxmhkxgye5viov4	Tony Bellotti	Are rating agencies' assignments opaque? Evidence from international banks	2011	33	.pdf	application/pdf	9335	1131	66	predictions of international bank ratings than ordered choice models due to the formers Keywords: International banks, ratings, support vector machines, ordered choice models, specific dummy variables), as determinants of bank ratings using both ordered choice models country (fixed) effects within the context of modelling bank ratings, is an additional choice models and SVMs in terms of modelling and predicting individual bank rank ratings, We apply the SVM method to bank ratings data and compare its in-sample predictive for the ordered choice models these country dummy variables could not all be entered add 0.118 to the weights in the index for Argentina, Benin, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Mohgolia, Nigeria measures for both SVMs and ordered choice models that exclude country effects in an correct predictions for the ordered choice models including the country variable (predictions modelling and predicting bank ratings. ordered choice models and SVMs, for predicting and identifying the significant determinants 	./cache/work_ez3sps3eubcgxmhkxgye5viov4.pdf	./txt/work_ez3sps3eubcgxmhkxgye5viov4.txt