Investigating the Sources of Default Risk: Lessons from Empirically Evaluating Credit Risk Models
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
From a credit risk perspective, little is known about the distress factors - economy-wide or firm-specific - that are important in explaining variations in defaKeywords
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