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BIS Quarterly Review, December 2004
The nature of credit risk in project finance

6 December 2004

In project finance, credit risk tends to be relatively high at project inception and to diminish over the life of the project. Hence, longer-maturity loans would be cheaper than shorter-term credits.

JEL classification: F34, G12, G28, G32.

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