Europe - S&P has reacted angrily to a report by two academics criticising rating agencies' approach to German companies' pension liabilities.
The report, written by Wolfgang Gerke and Bernhard Pellens, suggests that ratings agencies disadvantage German companies in comparison with Anglo-US companies by using an off-balance sheet approach...
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