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 …, our credit and illiquidity proxies can explain almost three quarters of the yield spread-bond volatility relation with …

We study the exposure of the U.S. corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and treasury bonds over the … period 1973-2007 in a regime switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effect on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …

realized defaults. Furthermore, it predicts future equity and corporate bond returns, even after controlling for many existing …

Taking advantage of recently augmented corporate bond transaction data, we examine the pricing implications of informed … asymmetry seem to capture adverse selection in corporate bond trading reasonably well. We demonstrate that information asymmetry … in bond trading has explanatory power for corporate bond yield spreads, and this result holds after controlling for the …

This paper analyzes the influence of downside risk on defaultable bond returns. By introducing a defaultable bond … bond excess returns using a portfolio-level analysis and Fama-MacBeth regressions. We find that downside risk is a strong … and robust predictor for future bond returns. In addition, due to the higher proportion of abnormal transactions in the …