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Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) were one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the structured finance market, fueling the 2003-2007 boom in syndicated loans and leveraged buyouts. The credit crisis brought CLO issuance to a halt, and as a result the leveraged loan market dried...
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pricing. Our model provides a more general application of the affine framework in that both bonds and equities are priced in a …
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During the decade 1983-1992, approximately 1.4 trillion dollars of municipal bonds were sold in 87 thousand separate …
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equity curves, upward sloping nominal yield curve, and sign-switching correlation between equities and bonds consistent with …
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The very low real interest rates on bonds in the 1970's were accompanied by a large drop in the value of common stocks … equity values and in real interest rates on bonds. As long as marginal utility is a convex function of consumption, an … increase in risk depresses the return on riskless bonds. When all of the wealth of the economy is traded in the stock market …
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the pricing of bank loans and bonds in international markets. The results …
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inconsistent with the view that the relative yields on taxable and tax-exempt bonds are set by banks and insurance companies which …
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commercial bonds indicate that market participants base their evaluations of a bond issue's default risk on agency ratings or on …
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The assumption that bondholders follow either a buy-and-hold or a continuous realization trading policy, rather than the optimal trading policy,is at variance with reality and, as we demonstrate, may seriously bias the estimation of the yield curve and the implied tax bracket of the marginal...
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in bonds to a single portfolio of money-fixed debt instruments will suffer a serious welfare loss. Our interest in this … desirability and feasibility of introducing a market for index bonds (i.e. an asset offering a riskless real rate of return) in the … introducing as a third option a money market fund.(2) The potential welfare gain from the introduction of private index bonds in …
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