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Special Issue Paper

Modelling credit risk with scarce default data: on the suitability of cooperative bootstrapped strategies for small low-default portfolios

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Pages 416-434 | Received 17 Jan 2012, Accepted 21 Aug 2013, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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