We estimate a canonical sovereign default model from Arellano (2008) for Argentina via maximum simulated likelihood estimation to understand how well it performs in terms of predicting default events. The estimated model accounts for the overall default patterns of Argentina and closely matches...

This study constructs a dataset of the maturity structure of Japanese government bond for the past half century. Using the maturity composition data at the end of each fiscal year, this study structurally estimates a canonical preferred-habitat term structure model particularly for the subsample...