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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 …
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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 …
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We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross …
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We use yield spreads to construct ex-ante returns on corporate securities, and then use the ex-ante returns in asset pricing assets. Differently from the standard approach, our tests do not use ex-post average returns as a proxy for expected returns. We find that the market beta plays a much...
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We construct credit risk indicators for euro area banks and non-financial corporations. These are the average spreads on the yield of euro area private sector bonds relative to the yield on German federal government securities of matched maturities. The indicators are also constructed at the...
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We examine whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of …
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Shareholders have imperfect ontrol over the decisions of the management of a firm. We integrate a widely accepted version of the separation of ownership and control -- Jensen's (1986) free cash flow theory--into a dynamic equilibrium model and study the effect of imperfect corporate control on...
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important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper presents a detailed study of this phenomenon in the corporate bond … of bond and issuer controls, including bond liquidity and duration, and issuer fixed effects. This behavior is related to …
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frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within … accentuate the importance of collaboration between equity funds and bond funds within fund families.Institutional subscribers to …
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useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit …-variation in expected corporate bond returns …
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