Credit-spread determinants and interlocking contracts: A study of the Ras Gas project

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 248-278

  Dailami, Mansoor ^a   Hauswald, Robert ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractual incompleteness; Credit spreads; Nexus of contracts; Project finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548523298     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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