-09 financial crisis is often attributed to corporate bond dealers shedding off their inventory, right when liquidity was scarce …, including proprietary trading desks in investment banks, provided liquidity in response to the large selling by clients …. Corporate bond inventory of dealers rose sharply as a result. Although providing liquidity, limits to arbitrage, possibly in the …

spreads, and corporate bond liquidity spreads in a unified no-arbitrage framework. Four economic factors, monetary conditions …. During the pre-crisis period, volatility shocks decrease Treasury yields and widen both credit spreads and liquidity spreads … and real output become significant as well. Ignoring the liquidity component of corporate yield spreads is shown to lead …

deeply affected by their different degree of liquidity and by market imperfections exacerbated by the financial crisis. The …