Common use of Overview of the Dissertation Clause in Contracts

Overview of the Dissertation. ‌ The general aim of this dissertation is to solve the aggregation problem of rating information stemming from a variety of raters or rating sources. In particular, we are interested in the consensus and the agreement informa- tion across raters/rating sources. This problem represents a major research issue for different rating areas. In this dissertation we solve this problem for two common rating processes. These two processes are the credit rat- ing process where financial institutions or external rating agencies evaluate credit customers or firms and the bookmakers’ evaluations of teams’ or play- ers’ performances in a sports competition. In order to obtain consensus as well as (dis)agreement information across different raters/rating sources, we investigate a general model framework modeling these two common rating processes.