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The Term Structure of the Excess Bond Premium: Measures and Implications

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In this article, we construct daily aggregate as well as short-, medium-, and long-term "excess bond premium" (EBP) measures using a widely available corporate bond database (known as "TRACE"). The novel EBP measures we construct provide an important gauge of strains in the financial sector at different horizons. We find that the short-term EBP measure increased more dramatically at the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2007–09 global financial crisis, but the pattern was reversed around the interest rate liftoff at the end of 2015.

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  • Simon Gilchrist & Bin Wei & Vivian Z. Yue & Egon Zakrajšek, 2021. "The Term Structure of the Excess Bond Premium: Measures and Implications," Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, vol. 2021(12), September.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:a00068:96623
    DOI: 10.29338/ph2021-12
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    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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