Corporate bond risk and real activity : an empirical analysis of yield spreads and their systematic components /

This paper finds that the yield spread of investment-grade bonds relative to Treasuries, a proxy of default risk, predicts marginal changes in industrial production in the United States up to 12 months in the future, even upon controlling for a commonly used predictor such as the commercial paper sp...

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Main Author: Chan-Lau, Jorge A
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund International Capital Markets Department
Other Authors: Ivaschenko, Iryna V
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, International Capital Markets Department, c2001
[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, International Capital Markets Dept., ©2001
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/01/158
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Call Number: HG3810.I45 no.WP/01/158