This paper analyzes the influence of downside risk on defaultable bond returns. By introducing a defaultable bond …-trading model, we show that the decline in market risk tolerance and information accuracy leads to trading loss under downside … conditions. Our empirical analysis indicates that downside risk can explain a large proportion of the variation in yield spreads …

This paper examines the momentum effect and its causes, the persistence in default risk change in particular, in both … can be attributed to compensation for bearing a varying default risk and term risk. This paper shows that the change in … controlling for risk characteristics such as duration and yield-to-maturity.This paper also documents the integration of the …