We estimate the response of corporate bond credit spreads to three exogenous shocks: oil supply, investment-specific technology, and government spending. Credit spreads respond significantly to these macroeconomic shocks; the response is similar in magnitude, opposite in sign, and with a slight...

We analyze the price and liquidity effects in the U.S. corporate bond market caused by the Covid-19 crisis. We carefully consider the different impact of social distancing measures on firms. We find significant cross-sectional differences, i.e., bonds of firms that are more affected by these...

We investigate the determinants of the term structures of bond yield and market liquidity in the context of the Quantitative Easing (QE) programs implemented by the Bank of Japan. Between 2011 and 2016, we find that Japanese government bonds (JGBs) show an improvement in liquidity through the...

Can monetary stimulus boost corporate investment? We answer this question by studying ECB's 2011-2012 Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (LTROs), which provided cheap funding to Eurozone banks. We find that, relative to their non-Eurozone counterparts, Eurozone firms invested more after the...

With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, banks face a challenging environment. They will need to address disappointing results and adverse balance sheet restatements, the intensity of which depends on the evolution of the euro area economies. At the same time, vulnerable...

We employ a representative sample of 80,972 Italian firms to forecast the drop in profits and the equity shortfall triggered by the COVID-19 lockdown. A 3-month lockdown generates an aggregate yearly drop in profits of about 10% of GDP, and 17% of sample firms, which employ 8.8% of the sample's...