Is default event risk priced in corporate bonds?

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 165-195

  Driessen, Joost ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 12344307626     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhi009     Document Type: Review

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