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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| Формат: | Журнал |
| Мова: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2001.
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| Серія: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2001/158 |
| Онлайн доступ: | Full text available on IMF |
| Резюме: | 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 spread. The paper also finds that systematic risk factors associated with the yield spread of investment-grade bonds to a variety of risk-free benchmarks - Treasuries, agency bonds, and AAA-rated bonds - have significant predictive content for future growth rate of industrial production at 3 to 18 months forecasting horizon, both in- and out-of-sample. Finally, a regime-switching estimation shows that the systematic risk component is also able to capture "industrial production business cycle" well. |
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| Фізичний опис: | 1 online resource (62 pages) |
| Формат: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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