In innovation analysis the logit model used to be applied on available data when the dependent variables are dichotomous. Since most of the economic variables are correlated between each other practitioners often meet the problem of multicollinearity. This paper introduces a shrinkage estimator...

This paper shows that geographical investor heterogeneity strongly influences sovereign risk. While standard sovereign debt models mainly attribute the absence of sovereign defaults to foreign creditor retaliation, a new theoretical literature argues that domestic creditors also affect borrowing...