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We analyze the extent to which investors in opaque markets price information from more transparent markets. Exploiting the natural experiment created by bond-insurer insolvency, we show that municipal bond investors ignore insurers' equity prices and CDS premia, yet react to insurers'...
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effects of bankruptcy announcements on creditors using a unique database. On average, creditors experience severe negative … abnormal equity returns and increases in CDS spreads. In addition, creditors are more likely to suffer from financial distress … later. These effects are stronger for industrial creditors than financials. Simulations calibrated to these results indicate …
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surpluses. In the data, adjustments to convenience yields explain a larger fraction of the variation in Eurozone bond yields …-section and in the time series. These findings imply large fiscal costs especially on the peripheral countries. If all Eurozone … billion euros in cumulative revenues from bond issuance between 2003 and 2020, representing 2.6% of 2020 Eurozone GDP …
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This paper quantifies liquidity and credit premia in German and French government bond yields. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of government-guaranteed agency bonds and exploit the fact that any difference in their yields vis-`a-vis government bonds can be attributed to differences...
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Expectations of risky bond payments are unobservable and recovery rates for sovereigns are hard to estimate because they have no contractual claims to defined assets and samples of defaults are limited. A geometric version of credit spread is used to derive expected payments, dependent on...
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We document a strong positive cross-sectional relation between corporate bond yield spreads and bond return volatilities. As corporate bond prices are generally attributable to both credit risk and illiquidity as discussed in Huang and Huang (2012), we apply a decomposition methodology to...
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the demand for safe government debt to currency unhedged and hedged excess returns in a sample of US mutual funds. We find evidence of active rebalancing towards government bonds that offer relatively higher returns on an unhedged basis, in particular...
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news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which include 37,859 news on the EU, on the Eurozone and on country …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …
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This paper examines the dynamic properties of Asia-Pacific local currency sovereign bond yields and risk premiums. We focus, in particular, on the properties and interactions of components of bond risk premiums that are due to credit spreads and exchange rates. We find that local variables are...
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This paper is about market liquidity risk premia in Eurozone sovereign bond spreads between 2008 and 2015. By …
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