This paper examines the determinants of bond issuance in the Chinese market and the influence of capital structure … Chinese market, in particular the involvement of the financial authority permission process during bond issuance, enhance the … of both bond and nonbond direct finance. We interpret this as bond issuance approval serving as a signal to markets of an …

We analyze trading opportunities that arise from differences between the bond and the CDS market. By simultaneously … entering a position in a CDS contract and the underlying bond, traders can build a default-risk free position that allows them … to repeatedly earn the difference between the bond asset swap spread and the CDS, known as the basis. We show that the …