Country credit risk determinants with model uncertainty

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 224-234

  Maltritz, Dominik ^a   Molchanov, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian Model Averaging; Default risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888290358     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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