The Implicit Government Guarantee: Evidence from an Unexpected Corporate Bond Default Event

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Lei ◽  
Ei Yang ◽  
Yue Yin

Liquidity is considered to be an important risk factor for corporate bond investors, especially in an economically stressful environment. We begin this issue of The Journal of Fixed Income with an article by Scott Richardson and Diogo Palhares that exhibits some counterintuitive evidence for investors anticipating higher future excess returns for a portfolio of less-liquid bonds—no liquidity risk premium, but higher volatility for tilting a bond portfolio. However, during the stressful period associated with the 2008 financial crisis, Jeffrey Black, Seth Hoelscher, and Duane Stock use a government guarantee program to test the causal relationship of rollover risk and the liquidity-credit risk loop resulting in improved liquidity and reduced debt cost.


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