Two Essays on the Corporate Bond Market

This dissertation consists of two papers. The first paper examines the propagation of firm-specific shocks as well as market-wide shocks between 1995-2003 using Treasury and corporate bond market data. It then tests the implications of previously proposed models of contagion. I find little support f...

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Main Author: Theocharides, George
Other Authors: Helwege, Jean
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194948

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