Hallerbach, Winfried G. - 2014
Ibbotson's “Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation” data set is widely used because it provides monthly US financial data … total returns on long-term corporate bonds and long-term government bonds. This excess return is used in empirical research … flawed in two ways: (1) it is not based on subtracting maturity-matched government bonds from corporate bonds, and therefore …