Lopez-Salido, David - 2016
Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a … credit-market conditions. That is, when our sentiment proxies indicate that credit risk is aggressively priced, this tends to … be followed by a subsequent widening of credit spreads, and the timing of this widening is, in turn, closely tied to the …