Liquidity or Credit Risk? The Determinants of Very Short‐Term Corporate Yield Spreads

Dan Covitz and Chris Downing

Journal of Finance, 2007, vol. 62, issue 5, 2303-2328

Abstract: Employing a comprehensive database on transactions of commercial paper issued by domestic U.S. nonfinancial corporations, we study the determinants of very short‐term corporate yield spreads. We find that liquidity plays a role in the determination of spreads but, somewhat surprisingly, credit quality is the more important determinant of spreads, even at horizons of less than 1 month. These results are robust across a variety of proxies for liquidity and credit risk, and have important implications for the literature on the modeling of corporate bond prices.

Date: 2007
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