The effect of inflation on the credit spreads of corporate bonds is investigated utilising real instead of nominal interest rates in extensions of the models proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz (1995) and Collin-Dufresne et al. (2001). Inflation is a critical, non-default, component incorporated...

Recent theoretical models including the closed-form valuation model of Longstaff and Schwartz (1995) predict that credit spreads are driven by both an asset and interest rate factor. In empirical studies the credit spread may be expressed as either the difference between, or ratio of, the risky...

This paper investigates the influence of sentimental noise traders on the security price adjustment. We use De Long et al.'s (1990) definition of noise traders, who falsely believe they have special information, to extend Easley and O'Hara's (1992) seminal model. Our extended model demonstrates...