The finance literature looks at a number of factors to explain risk premia in corporate debt, such as liquidity effects …, jump-to-default risk, and contagion risk. Stochastic re-covery rates as a source of systematic risk have not received much … that differently-ranking debt instruments of the same issuer face identical default risk but different default …

The effects of sentiment should be strongest during times of heightened valuation uncertainty. As such, we document a … significant amplifying role for market uncertainty in the relation between sentiment and aggregate investment. A one …-standard-deviation increase in uncertainty more than doubles the effect of sentiment on investment. Moreover, allowing uncertainty …