“…Market share-based measures have been widely used in the existing literature as empirical proxies for reputation (seeFang, 2005;Guettler et al, 2011).3 Rather than the term Business Cycle we use Financial Cycle, which refers to the self-reinforcing interactions between perceptions of value and risk, risk-taking, and financing constraints within an economy (Borio 2014).4 For example,Fabozzi and Vink (2012) find that credit ratings explain 74% of the variation in the yields of UK RMBS.…”