An Alternative Methodology for Estimating Credit Quality Transition Matrices

Número: 
478
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C4, E44, G21, G23, G38
Palabras clave: 
Firms, macroeconomic variables, firm-specific covariates, hazard function

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