Modelling credit spreads in an illiquid South African corporate debt market

The South African debt market suffers from severe illiquidity, as is common in most emerging markets. Infrequent trading leads to out-of-date market prices and stale, unreliable credit spreads. Since the coverage of the South African debt market by credit ratings agencies is poor, meaningful credit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Samantha
Other Authors: Laurie, Henri
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:Eng
Published: Faculty of Science 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30379