The impact of monetary policy on corporate bonds in India

Rudra Sensarma and Indranil Bhattacharyya

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2016, vol. 38, issue 3, 587-602

Abstract: We analyse the impact of monetary policy on the shape of the corporate yield curve and credit spread using a macro-finance approach. Instead of estimating the latent factors from the data on corporate bonds, we use market proxies of level, slope and curvature of the corporate yield curve and credit spread. The results demonstrate that while monetary policy has the dominant impact among macroeconomic variables on the entire term structure, it is particularly strong at the short end and on credit spreads. Changes in credit spreads, in turn, also influence monetary policy. The results are robust to alternative identification schemes and have important policy implications for further development of the corporate bond market, particularly in emerging market economies.

Keywords: Term structure; Yield curve; Monetary policy; SVAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 E44 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2016.03.004

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