This paper investigates the behavioral biases in the corporate bond market through the cross-section association between retail and institutional trades and corporate bond returns. The study finds that bonds heavily bought by retail investors in one month underperform in the next month relative...

Lending institutions’ reluctance to lend to MSMEs or to offer them competitive interest rates stems from the relatively costly information acquisition for small loans. The central idea is to bridge the information gap between the demand and the supply side by creating a credit analytics...