Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbf The impact of bond rating changes on corporate bond prices: New evidence from the over-the-counter market Anthony D. May * Price College of Business‚ University of Oklahoma‚ 307 West Brooks‚ Norman‚ OK 73019‚ USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t I study the information content of bond ratings changes using daily corporate bond data from TRACE. Abnormal bond returns over a two-day event window that includes the downgrade (upgrade)
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dollars‚ made on a bond each period is called the bond’s: A. coupon. 2. The principal amount of a bond that is repaid at the end of the term is called the: B. face value. 3. The specified date on which the principal amount of a bond is repaid is called the: C. maturity. 4. The rate of return required by investors in the market for owning a bond is called the: D. yield to maturity. 5. The annual coupon divided by the face value of a bond is called the: E. coupon rate. 6. The annual coupon
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LECTURE OUTLINE – DRAFT 2 [pp. 3-4 are new] NB MIDTERM EXAM SUNDAY‚ OCTOBER 20‚ 2013 CONCLUDE LECTURE 4 THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL SHARPE MODEL’S APPLICATION TO PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT THE MODEL’S ASSUMPTIONS [ARE THEY REALISTIC?] ESTIMATING THE MODEL PARAMETERS RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES IMPROVING THE MODEL SHARPE VERSUS NAÏVE DIVERSIFICATION [BODIE Appendix 6A +] REFERENCE: BODIE 6th ed.‚ CHAPTER 9‚ SECTIONS 9.1-9.5 AN APPLICATION OF THE SHARPE SINGLE INDEX MODEL A Disciplined
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of Bonds Fixed rate bonds have a coupon that remains constant throughout the life of the bond. A variation are stepped-coupon bonds‚ whose coupon increases during the life of the bond. Zero-coupon bonds (zeros) pay no regular interest. They are issued at a substantial discount to par value‚ so that the interest is effectively rolled up to maturity (and usually taxed as such). The bondholder receives the full principal amount on the redemption date. High-yield bonds (junk bonds) are bonds that
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___________________________________________________________ Stocks have historically had much higher returns than bonds. Can these excess returns be justified by the higher risk attached to stocks‚ or are there alternative explanations? The following is an abbreviated history of studies and models that articulate the logic of stock returns; included are both support for and alternatives to the equity risk premium. Edgar Lawrence Smith’s 1924 book Common Stocks as Long Term Investments […] was immediately
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By synthesizing some readings and class discussions from the National Bureau of Statistics of China and China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan. I would like to agree that the policies outlined in the 12th Five-year Plan may have promoted the overall economic development of China. The People’s Republic of China has done a pretty good job in improving the local economic development in several ways. However‚ I do believe that there are more things China’ government could be done in adopt the reform in order
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Observation on U.S. Treasury Yields Date: Oct 10‚ 2012 Introduction In this paper‚ we establish three regression models on U.S. Treasury yields with two different maturities: three-month and one-year. Model 1 is to interpret the relationship between unemployment rates and the risk-free rates‚ which we choose the three-month T-bill interest rates. Model 2 is to evaluate the movement of short-term interest rates under pure expectation theory and liquidity premium theory as well as to compare
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Purpose The purpose of the experiment is to determine the percent yield of the precipitate; by performing double displacement reaction between solutions of two different compounds. Introduction First of all when making a solution of two different compounds; there will many variables that can be considered during the experiment. However‚ the variables are controlled variables. Controlled Variables ∙amount of water that will be dissolved with the compound (amount of water until the compound is
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Is sustainability truly built into the 12th 5-Year Plan? | Politics of Biodiversity | Environm... Page 1 of 5 Is sustainability truly built into the 12th 5-Year Plan? Perhaps for the first time‚ environment and related livelihoods issues figure in several chapters of a 5-Year Plan approach paper. But it is far from achieving the kind of integration of environment‚ economy‚ and livelihoods that is required if India is to meet its obligations to its people‚ to nature‚ and to international agreements
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Airline News Express airline NEws Express We Report to you In This Issue: Airline Yield Management The practice of Yield management has been widely adopted by service organizations in the past three decades. Yield management originally started in the airline industry and this capacity management strategy is also most often applied by airlines. The practice of yield management‚ especially in the airline industry‚ has been discussed in many different studies. There is‚ however
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