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This paper studies how stock market sentiment impacts corporate bond valuations. Using bond transactions from the Trading and Compliance Engine (TRACE), we find that sentiment is negatively related to bond yield spreads, with the impact being stronger after the onset of the recent credit crisis....
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I propose a friction measure of bond round-trip liquidity costs that is robust to outliers and accounts for the idiosyncratic information behind trading decisions. Particularly effective with investment-grade bonds, the proposed measure displays properties consistent with the credit risk puzzle....
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The UK is due to move to a system of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) later this year. Although the decision to move to RTGS was based on prudential concerns, this paper considers whether it has any implications for the implementation of monetary policy. In particular, the move could, in...
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Slow-moving capital cannot fully explain the 2005 and 2008 arbitrage crashes in theconvertible bond market. Faced with depressed convertible bond prices implying negative option values, some investors continued to buy strictly dominated straight bonds from the same issuers. This finding suggests...
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The paper uses an event study methodology to investigate which and how macroeconomic announcements affect commodity prices. Results show that gold is unique among commodities, with prices reacting to specific scheduled announcements in the United States and the Euro area (such as indicators of...
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