2019
DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12827
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Over‐the‐Counter Market Frictions and Yield Spread Changes

Abstract: We empirically study whether systematic over‐the‐counter (OTC) market frictions drive the large unexplained common factor in yield spread changes. Using transaction data on U.S. corporate bonds, we find that marketwide inventory, search, and bargaining frictions explain 23.4% of the variation in the common component. Systematic OTC frictions thus substantially improve the explanatory power of yield spread changes and account for one‐third of their total explained variation. Search and bargaining frictions comb… Show more

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“…Friewald and Nagler (2016) find that individual bonds in which dealers have higher net inventory have higher expected returns. More closely related to our paper, Friewald and Nagler (2019) show that proxies for inventory frictions such as aggregate net inventory and the TED spread have explanatory power for the cross section of credit spreads. Our study differs 4 For the equity market, prior literature finds mixed evidence on the roles of asymmetric information, investor demand, and dealer constraints in driving the liquidity risk premium and aggregate liquidity.…”
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confidence: 77%
“…Friewald and Nagler (2016) find that individual bonds in which dealers have higher net inventory have higher expected returns. More closely related to our paper, Friewald and Nagler (2019) show that proxies for inventory frictions such as aggregate net inventory and the TED spread have explanatory power for the cross section of credit spreads. Our study differs 4 For the equity market, prior literature finds mixed evidence on the roles of asymmetric information, investor demand, and dealer constraints in driving the liquidity risk premium and aggregate liquidity.…”
supporting
confidence: 77%
“…They conclude that illiquidity risk is more important in explaining the increase in corporate yield spreads during the 2008 financial crisis than is credit risk. Friewald and Nagler (2020) find that time-varying measures of inventory, search, and bargaining frictions in the corporate bond market explain the systematic component of yield spread changes. Lin, Wang, and Wu (2011) report that the sensitivity of corporate bond returns to fluctuations in an aggregate corporate bond liquidity factor helps explain corporate bond yields, implying that systematic liquidity risk is relevant for bond valuation.…”
Section: Trading Costs and Equilibrium Asset Pricingmentioning
confidence: 83%
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confidence: 99%