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We analyze the effect of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy on EME sovereign and corporate bond markets by … focusing on two dimensions: the evolution of the structure (size and currency composition) of the bond markets and their … allocations within the bond portfolios of US investors. Global factors, particularly the level of long-term US Treasury yields …
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Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for … large investment grade bond trades, relative to before the crisis, and are better for all bond types and trade sizes …-crisis liquidity could be low when markets are stressed. We consider three stress events: extreme VIX increases, extreme bond yield …
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We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross …
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pseudo-firm assets. Empirically, like corporate spreads, pseudo-bond spreads are large, countercyclical, and predict lower … economic growth. Using this framework, we find that bond market illiquidity, investors' over-estimation of default risks, and …
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callable bond. The model differs from previous work on this subject primarily in that it explicitly admits the possibility of … generalization facilitates the application of the model to determine what a specific bond (issued, for example, by a particular … characterize the relevant interest rate expectations. For the bond issuer, his own expectations (together with the bond's coupon …
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important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper presents a detailed study of this phenomenon in the corporate bond … of bond and issuer controls, including bond liquidity and duration, and issuer fixed effects. This behavior is related to …
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an over-the-counter secondary market with search frictions. Bargaining with dealers determines a bond's endogenous … liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … endogenous default worsens a bond's secondary market liquidity, which amplifies equity holders' rollover losses, which in turn …
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We present a dynamic general equilibrium model with agency costs where: i) firms are heterogeneous in the risk of default; ii) they can choose to raise finance through bank loans or corporate bonds; and iii) banks are more efficient than the market in resolving informational problems. The model...
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This paper develops a simple theory of the supply of index bonds by a firm, and uses that model to examine in some detail possible reasons for the non-existence of privately issued index bonds in the United States. The major elements of the theory involve the trade-off between the tax advantages...
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frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within … accentuate the importance of collaboration between equity funds and bond funds within fund families …
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