Default probabilities of European sovereign debt: Market-based estimates

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 321-324

  Copeland, Laurence ^a   Jones, Sally Anne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0035042189     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135048501750157521     Document Type: Article

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