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This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit defaul swap (CDS), bond, and … equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various … bond and CDS markets and the equity markets. As for price discovery, our results are mixed. This stands in contrast to the …
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We analyze the long-run impact of emerging-market sovereign bond yields on corporate bond yields, finding that the …
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Credit spreads rise after a monetary policy tightening, yet spread reactions are heterogeneous across firms. Exploiting information from a panel of corporate bonds matched with balance sheet data for U.S. non-financial firms, we document that firms with high leverage experience a more pronounced...
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The paper shows how-in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy-the currency composition of debt changes the risk profile of a company raising a given amount of financing, and thus affects the cost of debt. Foreign currency borrowing is cheaper when the exchange rate is positively correlated with the...
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interest rates. While bond yields are not fully efficient?reflecting regulation, liquidity, and segmentation?we find they …: changes in PBC rates influence the structure of Treasury, financial, and corporate bond yield curves, which are then …
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, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going …
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This paper finds that the yield spread of investment-grade bonds relative to Treasuries, a proxy of default risk, predicts marginal changes in industrial production in the United States up to 12 months in the future, even upon controlling for a commonly used predictor such as the commercial...
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This paper challenges the conventional view that foreign exchange risk premiums are small, not volatile, and unrelated to macroeconomic variables. For the Italian lira (1987-94), unconditional risk premiums—constructed using survey data to measure exchange rate expectations—are found to be...
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interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall …
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This paper investigates international co-movement in bond yields by testing for uncovered interest parity (UIP …
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