This paper theoretically and empirically studies the relation between credit news uncertainty and corporate bond returns. Our model states that when the quality of credit news is uncertain, bond prices respond more to bad news than to good news, ambiguous news about default likelihood increases...

Credit information quality is uncertain and varies across corporate bonds. We hypothesize that bond funds adjust their bond holdings to reduce perceived credit quality uncertainty if fund managers dislike ambiguity. Using statistical proximity measures of firm survival probabilities predicted by...

This paper proposes empirical methods to measure Credit Default Swap (CDS) return and explores its factor structure. We find that approximated CDS returns deviate significantly from actual returns based on the upfront fee, computed with protection sellers' cash flows. Past CDS returns and the...

We propose an asset pricing model in a production economy where cash flows are determined by firms' dividend and investment decisions. Managers choose extensive and intensive margins in payout policy while facing non-convex costs as firm cash holdings grow. Differences in the timing of dividend...

In this note, we address nonparametric identification of a collective model of household behavior in the presence of additive unobserved heterogeneity in the sharing rule. We show that the (nonstochastic part of the) sharing rule is nonparametrically identified. Moreover, under independence...