portfolios sorted by maturity and credit risk as measured by the issuer's "distance-to-default." The portfolios are constructed …

liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … premium and default premium for credit spreads, we also study the optimal maturity implied by the model based on the tradeoff …

-varying debt maturity choices, as well as its implications for the term structure of credit spreads. Compared to short-term debt … liquidity costs changing over the business cycle, our calibrated model implies that debt maturity is pro-cyclical, firms with … high systematic risk favor longer debt maturity, and that these firms will have more stable maturity structures over the …

difference between the yields to maturity of the two debt instruments …

secondary market prices of outstanding bonds -- sorted by maturity and credit risk. Relative to an autoregressive benchmark, BMA …

the roles played by volatility, illiquidity and debt maturity in driving debt runs, as well as on firms' capital adequacy …

government debt maturity and the term structure of credit spreads. Using the data of individual corporate bonds between 1972 and … 2015, we find that a longer government debt maturity is associated with a steeper credit term structure in both the primary …

liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … premium and default premium for credit spreads, we also study the optimal maturity implied by the model based on the tradeoff …