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We analyze trading opportunities that arise from differences between the bond and the CDS market. By simultaneously … entering a position in a CDS contract and the underlying bond, traders can build a default-risk free position that allows them … to repeatedly earn the difference between the bond asset swap spread and the CDS, known as the basis. We show that the …
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markets' interpretation of the stock split. We examine corporate bond issues around stock splits and find a significant … decline in the bond yield spread following stock splits, supporting the signaling hypothesis. We also confirm improvements in …
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The aim of the present research is to provide a new CoCo bond pricing method to assist analyses of both equity …
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Eurobonds from the US, Europe, and other countries around the world, we show that bond performance around M&A announcements is …
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Expectations of risky bond payments are unobservable and recovery rates for sovereigns are hard to estimate because …
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A recent stream of experimental economics literature studies the factors that contribute to the emergence of financial bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to...
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Recent empirical work using panel data documents that, while the correlation of investment and Tobin's Q is low, the correlation of investment and credit spreads is high. We propose an explanation for these empirical findings, based on time-varying risk, i.e. stochastic volatility. In our model,...
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between the level of cash holdings and post-announcement corporate bond returns. Our findings support the agency cost of cash …
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We examine the dynamics of bond correlation using a broad sample of US corporate bonds, and document that bond … correlation varies heavily over time. We attribute this variation in bond correlation to variation in risk factor correlation … sentiment decreases, i.e., corporate bond investors exhibit stronger flight-to-quality when their sentiment is low. Thus, low …
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This chapter presents historical evidence about Swedish stock prices, dividends, and yields on government fixed-interest securities. Monthly returns are presented since 1901 for stocks, since 1874 for government long-term bonds and since 1856 for short-term Treasury bills or central bank...
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