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spreads as it modifies both the level and shape of the curves. When a bond portfolio is considered, the presence of dependence …
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Taking advantage of recently augmented corporate bond transaction data, we examine the pricing implications of informed … asymmetry seem to capture adverse selection in corporate bond trading reasonably well. We demonstrate that information asymmetry … in bond trading has explanatory power for corporate bond yield spreads, and this result holds after controlling for the …
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evidence on the informational value of bond ratings for financial investors. In this study we examine the relationship between … bond ratings and credit spreads for US corporate bonds using a Granger causality approach in panel data sets. The findings … indicate that ratings generally carry some informational value for corporate bond investors. The causal relationship is more …
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How does a firm choose a set of covenants and of collateral to pledge when issuing straight bonds publicly in Japan? Covenants and collaterals are contract clauses intended to protect rights of the bondholders. If the protection is priced in the issue, why do firms try to put them all in the...
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The study builds on previous research that decomposes rating category default probability term structures from rating category interest rate term structures, and proposes a method to decompose rating migration matrices from market data, via decomposed default probability term structures. To...
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Recent decades have witnessed several waves of buyout activity. We find LBOs to be a significant concern for bondholders by showing that a) intra-industry credit spreads increase upon an LBO announcement, b) yields on bonds without event risk covenants are, on average, 21bps higher than those on...
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This study compares credit spreads and the pricing of securitization and covered bonds. Using a sample of 18,309 bonds issued by European banks in the 2000-2016 period, we find that asset-backed securities (ABS), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), public covered bonds (PCB), and mortgage covered...
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This study analyses how liquidity risk affects bonds' yield spreads after controlling for credit risk, bond …
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observations of German bank bond prices, based on the default-free term structure estimated from the Svensson (1994) model provided … depend on the estimation period and on the bond used for estimation. This result strongly supports separate estimation over …
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