In this paper, we test the impact of uncertainty in asset measurement on credit term-structure. The theory of Duffie and Lando (2001) suggests that the inability of creditors to assess asset values precisely will support the existence of non-zero short term credit spreads. Developments in recent...

The last decade has seen rapid growth in trading of credit instruments on secondary markets. The ensuing availability of a rich set of credit market data has created a novel environment for testing a variety of financial economic theories. In this discussion, we provide a simple framework for...

Style investing has become part of the investing nomenclature for equity markets. To date, despite the massive size of fixed income markets, little research has examined the efficacy of style-based investing in fixed income. In this paper we summarize a common style based framework for capturing...