Does Sentiment Explain Closed-End Fund Discounts? Evidence from Bond Funds

Abraham Abraham, Don Elan and Alan Marcus

The Financial Review, 1993, vol. 28, issue 4, 607-16

Abstract: This paper documents that discounts and premia on closed-end bond funds exhibit the same sensitivity to broad market returns as stock fund discounts. Despite this, stock funds sell on average at discounts from net asset value while bond funds sell at small premia. This pattern calls into question the conclusion that the average level of the discount rate can be rationalized by appealing to the systematic nature of discount risk. These results indicate that appeals to investor sentiment, which have been hypothesized as a source of fund discounts, do not fully resolve the puzzle of closed-end fund discounts. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

Date: 1993
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