Are adjustments in the default risk premium asymmetric?

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2693-2698

  Thompson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MACROECONOMICS; MODELING;

EID: 36549063051     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600749797     Document Type: Article

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