The effects of default and call risk on bond duration

Yan Alice Xie, Sheen Liu, Chunchi Wu and Bing Anderson

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2009, vol. 33, issue 9, pages 1700-1708

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of default risk, call risk, and their interactions on bond duration. We find that call risk decreases durations of default-free bonds, while default risk alone generally decreases durations for risky bonds with only a few exceptions. The joint effect of default and call risk always results in shorter durations for corporate bonds. Controlling for the effect of default risk, call risk has a negative effect on duration, which diminishes as bond ratings decline. Finally, the effect of call risk on duration depends on bond characteristics. Empirical evidence shows that the effect of call risk is smaller for discount bonds and for deep-discount fallen angels.

Keywords: Default; risk; Call; provision; Duration; Yield; spreads; Discount; and; premium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VCY ... f9138adac47212dc1dad
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbfina:v:33:y:2009:i:9:p:1700-1708

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Banking & Finance is edited by Ike Mathur

More articles in Journal of Banking & Finance from Elsevier
Series data maintained by Heidi Boesdal ().