interest-rate sensitive, derivative pricing models. Our overview of conceptual approaches highlights the tradeoffs that have …

corporate bond yield changes and stock returns should be informative about firm level default risk of this corporate debt. In … estimate the contemporaneous correlation between firm level corporate bond yield changes and stock returns using daily data … evidence that as the stock-bond correlations increase in absolute value, the default risks of bonds increase, as expected. In …

we can compute a bond invoice i.e., the present value for a given cash investment in the bond. We present the classical … bond pricing formulae and show how to modify this formula to account for accrued interest.To be able to evaluate bond cash … the bond. There is no closed-form analytical solution. Therefore, it must be solved for using an optimization algorithm …

A bond's expected return (EBR) is the ex-ante internal rate of return of the bond's expected future cash flows, whereas … a bond's yield to maturity (YTM) is the internal rate of return of its promised future cash flows. In this paper we … the model to U.S. corporate bond data, using rating transition matrices and industry-specific recovery rates. We show that …

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 …