We provide empirical evidence that the pricing of green bonds tends to be highly sophisticated and based on a two-tiered approach. When buying a green bond, investors do not look only at the presence of a green label, but also consider additional characteristics of the bond that involve the...

This paper examines the determinants of investor flows into U.S. corporate bond mutual funds, with a focus on monetary policy and fund-specific characteristics during the COVID-19 crisis. These funds, as non-bank financial intermediaries, are vulnerable to sudden investor redemptions due to...

In this study, we investigate the relationship between implied equity volatility (VIX) and corporate bond spreads, covering both investment-grade and high-yield sectors. Our dataset spans three significant periods of recent volatility: the 2008/09 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the...

This study investigates the volatility of the Israeli corporate bond market, where corporate bonds are traded on a Limit Order Book (LOB) exchange with high retail trading activity. Using data from the Tel-Bond 20 and Tel-Bond 60 indices, we estimate various asymmetric GARCH models to capture...

This paper investigates how firms use green versus conventional debt and the associated firm- and aggregate-level environmental consequences. Employing a dataset of 127,711 global bond and syndicated loan issuances by non-financial firms across 85 countries during 2012-23, the paper documents a...

Presently, financial portfolio managers lack a solid basis for building a reliable risk management strategy for green debt instrument investments due to the lack of compelling growth and resilience data. Therefore, this study assesses the role of green bonds in financial markets by assessing and...

This paper studies the role of financial intermediaries in the transmission of central bank corporate bond purchases to bond yields. Contrary to standard expectations, we find that mutual funds-typically viewed as price-elastic investors-amplify, rather than dampen, the effects of these...

Based on firm-level data of Japanese listed companies for the period of 2013-2022, this study conducts an empirical analysis to investigate how the issuance of green bonds influences corporate environmental and financial performance. The results show that the green bond issuance demonstrates a...

This paper empirically analyzes market reactions to first-time issuances of green bonds and first-time disclosures of green bond frameworks of 45 large, listed European banks and insurers with an event study. Covering recent regulatory developments of the European Green Bond Standard, we...

With the aim of providing a comprehensive framework of analysis, the paper develops a signaling model in which green bonds are able to increase the environmental performance of companies, as they allow investors, endowed with environmental preferences, to uncover the adoption of clean production...

Amazonia, the world's largest tropical rainforest region, plays a critical role in global bio-diversity, climate regulation, and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people, including Indigenous peoples (IP), Afro-descendants (AD), and traditional communities (TC). It faces several complex...

One of the most significant recent developments in the debt financing sector pertains to new products and standards applicable to sustainability-related issues. Therefore, research on this has increased substantially. One of the most recent such developments is that of sustainability-linked...

Purpose This study investigates the influence of trading mechanisms on cross-market integration between stocks and corporate bonds on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) during the COVID-19 crisis. Unlike the worldwide practice of trading corporate bonds on an over-the-counter (OTC) market, TASE...

This study examines the sources of capital for sustainable development and investigates the existence of a green bond premium in both primary and secondary bond markets across the Asia-Pacific and European regions. Utilizing the robust Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) method in conjunction with...

Central banks increasingly act as market-makers-of-last-resort, yet the impact and exit of such interventions remain poorly understood. Using euro-area data, we analyze the cycle of market freeze, intervention, and exit in short-term debt markets. A run on money market funds (MMFs) triggered a...

Theory suggests that corporate and sovereign bonds are fundamentally different, also because sovereign debt has no bankruptcy mechanism and is hard to enforce. We show empirically that the two assets are more similar than you think, at least when it comes to high-yield bonds over the past 20...