Liquidity level and liquidity risk are priced in the cross-section of corporate bond yields and returns. In the first case the focus is on the individual liquidity level while in the second case it is on the exposure to a common liquidity factor. In this paper we focus on the impact of the...

In this paper we use a repeat-sales index methodology to construct US corporate bond price indices. Using several performance tests, we show that this methodology provides superior index estimates. In particular when assets trade at infrequent and irregular intervals the repeat-sales index is...