Bethke, Sebastian; Gehde-Trapp, Monika; Kempf, Alexander - 2015 - This version: August 14, 2015
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 …