Quantifying credit risk I: Default prediction

Financial Analysts Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-44

  Kealhofer, Stephen ^a  

^a KMV Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 4644323340     PISSN: 0015198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2469/faj.v59.n1.2501     Document Type: Article

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