Default Risk, Yield Spreads, and Time to Maturity
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- Vol. 23 (1) , 111
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2331028
Abstract
This paper extends the default model of yield spreads for bonds by showing that, in general, they are a complex function of maturity and, in particular, are not always monotonically increasing, contrary to what one traditional view suggests. Our results may help explain the apparently conflicting empirical results found in the literature.Keywords
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