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Realized Volatility, Liquidity, and Corporate Yield Spreads

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  • Marco Rossi

    (Department of Finance, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, USA)

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I propose a friction measure of bond round-trip liquidity costs that is robust to outliers and accounts for the idiosyncratic information behind trading decisions. Particularly effective with investment-grade bonds, the proposed measure displays properties consistent with the credit risk puzzle. Using transactions from January 2004 to December 2011, I find that liquidity costs display a strong correlation with credit conditions and peaked during the sub-prime crisis. After controlling for equity volatility with high-frequency measures, liquidity costs explain a substantial fraction of the variation in the yield spreads of highly rated bonds, but become less important for speculative-grade bonds.

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  • Marco Rossi, 2014. "Realized Volatility, Liquidity, and Corporate Yield Spreads," Quarterly Journal of Finance (QJF), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(01), pages 1-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:qjfxxx:v:04:y:2014:i:01:n:s2010139214500049
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010139214500049
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    1. Patrick Houweling & Albert Mentink & Ton Vorst, 2003. "How to measure Corporate Bond Liquidity?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-030/2, Tinbergen Institute.
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