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This paper investigates whether ETF returns lead the returns of underlying bonds and similar style bond funds. Bond … predicted, we find that ETF returns predict its own NAV returns and aggregated ETF returns for each bond also predict the … underlying bond returns on a monthly basis. We show that bond liquidity is the determining factor of the predictability and the …
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We document a higher bond return volatility around the time of default for bonds included in CDS auctions (especially … cheapest-to-deliver bonds) versus those that are not, while controlling for firm fundamentals and bond illiquidity. This … CDS buyers and sellers manipulating bond prices to achieve favorable CDS auction outcomes, rather than a spillover of …
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This paper develops a decentralized theory that determines the fair value of the yield-to-maturity of a bond or bond …
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We examine the impact of cyberattacks on bondholder wealth. Unlike stockholders, bondholders do not react in the short-term but do experience negative returns in the one-month event window. Compared to similar firms not subject to cyberattacks, we find that bondholders lost approximately 2% of...
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We consider the risk neutral valuation of fixed term securities lending in a multi-curve framework, taking into account the forward basis of each component of the transaction relative to the discount curve, including basis between currencies. We show that a convexity adjustment arises from the...
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approach to formulating the theoretical price of a zero-coupon bond without the hassle of a change of probability measure - the …
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While the idea of governments issuing financial instruments whose repayments are indexed to gross domestic product (GDP) is not new, the current global backdrop of high sovereign debt coupled with low interest rates and weak and uncertain nominal growth prospects suggests the case for doing so...
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We estimate the default probabilities implicit in the transaction prices of a new type of call provision, the make whole call. The new issuance of make whole callable bonds has supplanted that of traditional callable bonds and noncallable bonds. Make whole callable bonds have strike prices that...
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This paper shows that forward default intensities in the Black and Cox (1976) model of corporate default can be expressed in terms of the Mills Ratio (Mills, 1926). The behavior of the forward default intensity and hence the survivorship functions then follows from inequalities that are...
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highlighted in the context of an existing, classical, index-linked catastrophe bond pricing model, and in doing so we specialise …
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