Corporate Yields: Effect of Credit Ratings and Sovereign Yields

Galina Hale, Julia Bevilaqua and Eric Tallman

No 14345, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We empirically evaluate the importance of two sources of public information affecting pricing of global corporate bonds: bond ratings provided by rating agencies and sovereign yields of the issuer’s country. We find that both in the cross-section of firms and over time more variation in corporate bond yields is explained by sovereign yields than by corporate bond ratings. When sovereign yields are high, their importance in pricing corporate bonds declines. In these states, for advanced economies’ borrowers, the importance of corporate ratings increases. There is a small upward trend in the importance of corporate ratings over time.

Keywords: Bond; Rating; Sovereign (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 F34 F36 F65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01
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