Controlling for numerous attributes tied to default and priced asset risk, including yield, credit spread, bond rating, and maturity, we find that a corporate bond’s book value divided by its market price strongly predicts its return. Bonds with the 20% highest “bond book-to-market ratios”...

We find a positive relationship between individual downside variance premia, the difference between risk-neutral and physical expected downside variances, and future corporate bond returns. The hedge portfolio earns the economically substantial and statistically significant excess return of...

We document that the first and third cross-sectional moments of corporate bond returns significantly and positively predict future stock market returns both in- and out-of-sample. The predictability emerges from informed bond trading and gradual diffusion of information. Particularly, the...

This paper examines the relationship between short selling in the equity market and corporate bond returns. We show that both shorting activity and size of short trades are inversely correlated with contemporaneous bond returns. In addition, firms with heavily shorted shares or large short trade...

This study explores the cross-sectional integration of stock and corporate bond markets by comparing a firm's expected stock return, as implied by corporate bond spreads, to its realized stock return. We compute expected corporate bond returns by correcting credit spreads for expected losses due...

We investigate and improve momentum spillover from stocks to corporate bonds, i.e. the phenomenon that past winners in the equity market are future winners in the corporate bond market. We find that a momentum spillover strategy exhibits strong structural and time-varying default risk exposures...

This paper examines the momentum effect and its causes, the persistence in default risk change in particular, in both corporate bond and stock markets. Using a comprehensive bond dataset, we observe a significant momentum effect in corporate bond returns and bond credit spread changes. The...

The low beta anomaly is well documented for equity markets. However, the existence of such a factor in corporate bond markets is less explored. I find that European corporate bonds of firms with a low equity beta have higher risk-adjusted returns, on average, than European corporate bonds of...

This paper studies the correlations between individual bond and stock returns issued by the same firm using Trading Reporting and Compliance Engine prices. We employ panel data to analyze the determinants of the variation in estimated dynamic correlations using macroeconomic cycle indicators,...

This paper evaluates the cross comovements of illiquidity between stocks and corporate bonds issued by the same firm employing individual corporate bonds information from TRACE from July 2002 to December 2014. We analyze these relations in both a time series and a cross-sectional framework,...