Dynamic equilibrium correction modelling of yen Eurobond credit spreads

Publisher:
Elsevier
Publication Type:
Chapter
Citation:
Japanese Fixed Income Markets: Money, Bond and Interest Rate Derivatives, 2006, 1, pp. 171 - 186
Issue Date:
2006-01
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Understanding the long term relationship between the yields afrisky and riskless bonds is a critical tusk for portfolio managers and policy makers. This study specifies an equilibrium correction model of the credit spreads between Japanese Government bonds (JGBs) and Japanese yen Eurobonds with high quality credit ratings. The empirical results indicate that the corporate bond yields are cointegrated with the otherwise equivalent JGB yields, with the spread defining the cointegration relation. Tn addition the results indicate that the equilibrium correction term is highly statistically significant in modelling credit spread changes. Another important factor is the risk-free interest rate with the negative sign, while there is little evidence of the contribution of the asset return to the behaviour of spreads.
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