How Important Is Sovereign Risk in Determining Corporate Default Premia? : The Case of South Africa /

The paper analyzes and quantifies the importance of sovereign risk in determining corporate default premia (yield spreads). It also investigates the extent to which the practice by rating agencies and banks of not rating companies higher than their sovereign ("country or sovereign ceiling"...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter, Marcel
Other Authors: Grandes, Martin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/217
Online Access:Full text available on IMF