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Coval, Jurek, and Stafford (2009, CJS hereafter) claim that senior CDX tranches, which resemble economic catastrophe bonds, are overpriced relative to index options. We show that this result is due to their problematic calibration procedure and restrictive model assumptions. A simple correction...
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pricing channel in addition to any direct dissemination impact. TRACE-associated improvement in bond valuation precision …
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The rise of bond financing in EuropeUsing large panel data of public and private firms, this paper dissects the growth … of bond financing in the Euro Area through the lens of the cross-section of issuers. In recent years, the composition of … bond issuers has shifted, with the entry of many smaller and riskier issuers. New issuers invest and grow, instead of …
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bond market from the same bond market's weight in global bond market, we investigate the determinants of foreign and … domestic investment biases in 41 global bond markets. We find that foreign investors significantly overweigh markets that offer …. Such return driven behavior of foreign investors is especially pronounced in emerging bond markets. Meanwhile, home bias is …
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We develop a two-layer asset pricing framework to analyze the fragility of the corporate bond market. In the model … model can be estimated using micro-data on bond prices, institutional investors holdings, and fund flows. We use the … estimated model to quantify the equilibrium effects of unconventional monetary and liquidity policies on bond prices …
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We introduce a new meaure of risk appetite in financial markets, based on the cross sectional behavior of excess returns. Turning them into probabilities through a Markov Switching model, we define one global risk appetite measure as the cross-sectional average of the individual probabilities...
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Recent findings on the term structure of equity and bond yields pose serious challenges to existing models of … dynamics of equity and bond yields (and their yield spreads). The movements of equity and bond yields are driven mainly by … returns/yields and nominal bond returns/yields switched from positive to negative after the late 1990s, owing mainly to a …
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Equilibrium bond-pricing models rely on inflation being bad news for future growth to generate upward-sloping nominal …
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Some key features in the historical dynamics of U.S. Treasury bond yields-a trend in long-term yields, business cycle …
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Riksbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) on bond risk premia in the Swedish government bond market. Using a novel arbitrage …-free dynamic term structure model of nominal and real bond prices that accounts for bondspecific safety premia, we find that … Sveriges Riksbank's bond purchases raised inflation and short-rate expectations, lowered nominal and real term premia and …
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