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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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Investors rebalance their portfolios as their views about expected returns and risk change. We use empirical measures of portfolio rebalancing to back out investors' views, specifically their views about the state of the economy. We show that aggregate portfolio rebalancing across equity sectors...
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This analysis tests the price discovery relationship between sovereign CDS premia and bond yield spreads on the same … reference entity. The theoretical no-arbitrage relationship between the two credit spreads is confronted with daily data from … verified. Then, we examine whether the non-stationary CDS and bond spreads series are bound by a cointegration relationship …
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foreign real bonds. Bonds matter: in equilibrium, investors structure their bond portfolio to hedge real exchange rate risk …
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Social Impact Bonds argue that they present a solution to several problems in funding social services, including performance … measurement and the distribution of risk. Using a simple model, we demonstrate that Social Impact Bonds have many features present …
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market. We show that insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds, reach for yield in choosing … their investments. Consistent with lower rated bonds bearing higher capital requirement, insurance firms' prefer to hold … higher rated bonds. However, conditional on credit ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher …
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This paper develops an affine model of the term structure of interest rates in which bond yields are driven by observable and unobservable macroeconomic factors. It imposes restrictions to identify the effects of monetary policy and other structural disturbances on output, inflation, and...
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We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovements and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We identify the economic factors employing a semi-structural regime-switching model for state variables such as interest rates, inflation, the output gap, and cash flow growth. We...
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This paper uses the factor augmented regression framework to analyze the relation between bond excess returns and the macro economy. Using a panel of 131 monthly macroeconomic time series for the sample 1964:1-2007:12, we estimate 8 static factors by the method of asymptotic principal...
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One justification offered for legacy admissions policies at universities is that that they bind entire families to the university. Proponents maintain that these policies have a number of benefits, including increased donations from members of these families. We use a rich set of data from an...
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