The Market for Borrowing Corporate Bonds

This paper describes the market for borrowing corporate bonds using a comprehensive data set from a major lender. The cost of borrowing corporate bonds is comparable to the cost of borrowing stock, between 10 and 20 basis points, and both have fallen over time. Factors that influence borrowing costs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Asquith, Paul, Au, Andreas S., Covert, Thomas, Pathak, Parag
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73466
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7883-246X