We analyze the term structure of illiquidity premiums as the difference between the yield curves of two major bond …

maximize its revenues from public bond issuances. Some of these interventions can be thought of as characteristics of a … secondary market turnover requirements for primary dealers with respect to bond sales seem to be in general more adequate than … the definition of maximum bid-ask-spreads or minimum turnover requirements with respect to bond purchases. Moreover …

the German's bond yields, although the Germany's rating status was never touched by CRA. There is no evidence for Granger … causality from bond yields to rating announcements. We infer from this findings that CRA announcements significantly influenced …

, cumulatively, due to low bond yields since the onset of the Euro crisis. In order to determine the contribution of the "flight to … quality" to this sum, we define the flight to quality as a factor which has caused German bond yields and crisis country bond …

measures as well as a number of variables that control for both the characteristics of the issuing firm and the bond … for the risk of the bond. Economically, the size of the liquidity premium of Mittelstand bonds is approximately twice the …

, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going …