Explaining Credit Spread Changes: Some New Evidence from Option-Adjusted Spreads of Bond Indices
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We examine the question of the determinants of corporate bond credit spreads using both weekly and monthly option-adjusted spreads for nine corporate bond indicKeywords
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