bond market. We exploit these policy changes using a difference-in-differences strategy, with ineligible corporate green …

article aims to investigate the effect of investor sentiment as a systematic risk factor on speculative bond yield spreads … period extends from January 1997 to August 2014. In the VAR models, speculative bond spreads and consumer confidence index … period sentiment. Empirical findings imply that investor sentiment is a systematic risk factor in risky bond markets. …

We document a strong positive cross-sectional relation between corporate bond yield spreads and bond return … volatilities. As corporate bond prices are generally attributable to both credit risk and illiquidity as discussed in Huang and …, our credit and illiquidity proxies can explain almost three quarters of the yield spread-bond volatility relation with …