This study examines the yield spreads of 3,362 revenue bonds issued by 213 private colleges and universities in the United States. We find that the bond ratings of Moody's and S&P have the most important effect on the spreads and that higher ratings result in lower debt costs. Further, the...

In almost every financial market crisis we can observe widening credit spreads, especially in the last years during the subprime and sovereign debt crisis. But what exactly drives the credit spread? This paper will outline static components, i.e. default risk, liquidity, risk and the relative...

In this paper, we propose a model of the joint dynamics of euro-area sovereign yield curves. The arbitrage-free valuation framework involves five factors and two regimes, one of the latter being interpreted as a crisis regime. These common factors and regimes explain most of the fluctuations in...

In this paper, we present a general discrete-time affine framework aimed at jointly modeling yield curves associated with different debtors. The underlying fixed-income securities may differ in terms of credit quality and/or in terms of liquidity. The risk factors follow conditionally Gaussian...

The role of credit rating agencies has been questioned in the recent years. Existing empirical studies provide mixed evidence on the informational value of bond ratings for financial investors. In this study we examine the relationship between bond ratings and credit spreads for US corporate...

How strong has been the effect of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on systemic risk in sovereign bond markets? Was the increase in credit spreads relative to triple-A benchmarks which followed the GFC the result of higher sovereign default risk or the result of a re-pricing that reflected...

This paper theoretically and empirically studies the relation between credit news uncertainty and corporate bond returns. Our model states that when the quality of credit news is uncertain, bond prices respond more to bad news than to good news, ambiguous news about default likelihood increases...

We examine the relative impact of Moody's and S&P ratings on bond yields and find that at issuance, yields on split rated bonds with superior Moody's ratings are about 8 basis points lower than yields on split rated bonds with superior S&P ratings. This suggests that investors differentiate...

This paper studies the impact of sovereign credit rating and outlook changes on the shape of sovereign yield curve. The data sample consists of five peripheral European countries known as GIIPS (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) over the period of 01 January 2001 to 30 June 2016. We...

This study compares credit spreads and the pricing of securitization and covered bonds. Using a sample of 18,309 bonds issued by European banks in the 2000-2016 period, we find that asset-backed securities (ABS), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), public covered bonds (PCB), and mortgage covered...