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A closed formula for illiquid corporate bonds and an application to the European market

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  • Roberto Baviera
  • Aldo Nassigh
  • Emanuele Nastasi

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We propose an option approach for pricing bond illiquidity that is reminiscent of the celebrated work of Longstaff (1995) on the non-marketability of some non-dividend-paying shares in IPOs. This approach describes a quite common situation in the fixed income market: it is rather usual to find issuers that, besides liquid benchmark bonds, issue some other bonds that either are placed to a small number of investors in private placements or have a limited issue size. We model interest rate and credit risks via a convenient reduced-form approach. We deduce a simple closed formula for illiquid corporate coupon bond prices when liquid bonds with similar characteristics (e.g. maturity) are present in the market for the same issuer. The key model parameter is the time-to-liquidate a position, i.e. the time that an experienced bond trader takes to liquidate a given position on a corporate coupon bond. We show that illiquid bonds present an additional liquidity spread that depends on the time-to-liquidate aside from bond volatility. We provide a detailed application for two issuers in the European market.

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  • Roberto Baviera & Aldo Nassigh & Emanuele Nastasi, 2019. "A closed formula for illiquid corporate bonds and an application to the European market," Papers 1901.06855, arXiv.org, revised May 2020.
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