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- 27 Oct 2010
- News
Is There A Bubble In The Bond Market?
- July 2006
- Case
Citigroup: Euro Zone Bond Trading (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Christopher Bruner and Aldo Sesia
Describes the development and execution of a bond trading strategy by a London-based team of Citigroup eurozone bond traders. The trades, which involved two of Europe's leading electronic trading platforms, gave rise to a European-wide controversy over the traders'...
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- January 1994
- Exercise
Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction.
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds." Harvard Business School Exercise 294-034, January 1994.
- 12 Apr 2019
- News
Bond Market Turmoil Sparked E-Trading
- 1983
- Book
Rating Industrial Bonds
By: David Hawkins, Walter J. Campbell and Barbara A. Brown
Keywords:
Bonds
Hawkins, David, Walter J. Campbell, and Barbara A. Brown. Rating Industrial Bonds. NJ: Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1983.
- June 2009
- Article
Economic Catastrophe Bonds
By: Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Coval, Joshua D., Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford. "Economic Catastrophe Bonds." American Economic Review 99, no. 3 (June 2009).
- 15 Oct 2015
- News
Bonding with Infrastructure
- November 2014 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma
By: John A. Quelch
The case desccribes a social impact bond (SIB) to fund home-based remediation programs designed to reduce asthma attacks among Fresno residents (especially children) and thereby save on health care costs (ambulance callouts, emergency room visits etc.). The case...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns
By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
We show that the credit quality of corporate debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the...
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Keywords:
Price;
Credit;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment Return;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Bonds;
Market Design;
Cost of Capital;
Mathematical Methods;
System Shocks
Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson. "Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-065, January 2011. (Revised September 2012, Internet Appendix Here.)
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: dead corporate bonds
How do I find dead corporate bonds in Bloomberg? In Bloomberg matured bonds are accessed through the Related Securities screen for a security .
To get to a Related Securities screen: From an [Equity]... View Details
To get to a Related Securities screen: From an [Equity]... View Details
- Article
Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching for yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyzes this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for...
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Keywords:
Fixed Income;
Reaching For Yield;
Financial Intermediation;
Insurance Companies;
Insurance;
Assets;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Risk Management;
Insurance Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market." Journal of Finance 70, no. 5 (October 2015): 1863–1902.
- March 2006
- Case
Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual....
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Keywords:
Capital Structure;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Strategy;
Banking Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and Elizabeth Kind. "Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds." Harvard Business School Case 206-022, March 2006.
- June 2013
- Article
Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns
By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
We show that the credit quality of corporate debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the...
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Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson. "Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 6 (June 2013): 1483–1525. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- September 2007
- Supplement
Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (CW)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Baker, Malcolm P., and Elizabeth Kind. "Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 208-704, September 2007.
- March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
- Teaching Note
Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds (TN)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser and Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for [209093].
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- 21 Apr 2010
- News
A better fail-safe than CoCo bonds
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Ticonderoga: Inverse Floating Rate Bond
Presents a simple interest hedging exercise. A hedge fund is considering an investment in a structured fixed--income product: an inverse floating-rate bond, or inverse floater, designed by a U.S. investment bank. The hedge fund's normal policy is to hedge interest rate...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Bonds;
Investment Funds;
Interest Rates
Chacko, George C., and Anders Sjoman. "Ticonderoga: Inverse Floating Rate Bond." Harvard Business School Case 205-113, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
How do monetary policy rules, monetary policy uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of US Treasury bonds? The exposure of US Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average... View Details
- 29 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market
The Link Between Bonds and Individual Stocks
Government bonds comove more strongly with bond-like stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on... View Details