“…Nonetheless, spurred by the increasing demand for information on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, this literature has recently evolved toward the study of commercial ratings. Although some authors find that these ratings contain value‐relevant information (Lehman [2019], Guest and Nerino [2020]) other recent papers point out several issues: disconnect between ratings and governance‐related outcomes (Daines, Gow, and Larcker [2010]), substantial disagreement among the assessments of different rating agencies (Berg, Fabisik, and Sautner [2020], Christensen, Serafeim, and Sikochi [2022]), and rewriting of data (Berg, Fabisik, and Sautner [2020]).…”