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After revision:  Our empirical studies give the evidence that systematic default risk coupling with default contagion could have the leading component of the total default risk The Journal of Finance, 2007{%%% DasDuffie2007 and Duffie, Eckner, Horel and Saita The Journal of Finance, 2009 duffieEHS2009 demonstrate the presence of frailty correlated default and the incapability of doubly stochastic assumption to capture default contagion or frailty (unobservable explanatory variables that are correlated across firms) .