On Default Correlation: A Copula Function Approach

Preprint

1 January 1999

preprint
Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.187289

Abstract

This paper studies the problem of default correlation. We first introduce a random variable called "time-until-default" to denote the survival time of

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