Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for … large investment grade bond trades, relative to before the crisis, and are better for all bond types and trade sizes …-crisis liquidity could be low when markets are stressed. We consider three stress events: extreme VIX increases, extreme bond yield …

We analyze reallocations within the international bond portfolios of US investors. The most striking empirical … economic growth. We also provide a descriptive analysis of global bond markets' structure and returns …

We analyze the effect of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy on EME sovereign and corporate bond markets by … focusing on two dimensions: the evolution of the structure (size and currency composition) of the bond markets and their … allocations within the bond portfolios of US investors. Global factors, particularly the level of long-term US Treasury yields …

This paper uses the factor augmented regression framework to analyze the relation between bond excess returns and the … statistically significant predictive power for excess bond returns. We show how a bias correction to the parameter estimates of … real activity for excess bond returns is robust even after accounting for finite sample inference problems. Forecasts of …

changed from positive to negative. A change in the comovement between inflation and the output gap explains changing bond …

We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross …

. Total external debt (public and private) and domestic credit are also included through 2013. This combination gives a broad …-by-country basis. In addition to public debt, we trace out the evolution of its composition between domestic and external borrowing …

We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the … first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and … the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt contract is optimal. In the second part we consider a more general …