The Corporate Spread Curve and Industrial Production in the United States /

The term structure of domestic investment grade bond spreads - or corporate spread curve - contains useful information to predict future changes in industrial production, beyond the information already contained in interest rates, commercial paper-treasury bill spreads, and lagged values of industri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chan-Lau, Jorge
Other Authors: Ivaschenko, Iryna
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/008
Online Access:Full text available on IMF