SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2007-035 Estimating Probabilities of Default With Support Vector Machines Wolfgang Härdle* Rouslan Moro** Dorothea Schäfer*** * Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany ** Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & DIW Berlin, Germany *** DIW...

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