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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Главный автор: Peter, Marcel
Другие авторы: Grandes, Martin
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/217
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF