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April 2004
Tutorial

Yield Curves and Bond Ratings Tutorial

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

To preview this online product, Authorized Faculty can call our customer service department at 1-800-545-7685 or 617-783-7600. This online tutorial explains what drives the shape of the yield curve for traded debt securities. Also describes the metrics used by rating... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Investment Return; Financial Services Industry

January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (TN)

Keywords: Bonds

2017
Article

Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

By: John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam and Luis M. Viceira

The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Bonds; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Risk Management

July 2006
Supplement

Citigroup: Euro Zone Bond Trading (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Christopher Bruner and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Services Industry; Europe

October 1972
Article

A Dynamic Model for Bond Portfolio Management

By: D. B. Crane and S. P. Bradley

Keywords: Bonds; Investment; Management

2002
Other Unpublished Work

The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns

By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler

The maturity of new debt issues predicts excess bond returns. When the share of long term debt issues in total debt issues is high, future excess bond returns are low. This predictive power comes in two parts. First, inflation, the real short-term rate, and the term... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Bonds; Investment Return; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction

December 2000
Supplement

Harvard Management Company & Inflation-Protected Bonds

By: Luis M. Viceira

Spreadsheet to (9-201-053). Download only. View Details

March 1980 (Revised October 1980)
Background Note

Note on the Corporate Bond Markets

October 2006 (Revised October 2012)
Teaching Note

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

May 2010
Article

Price Pressure in the Government Bond Market

By: Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos

2008
Working Paper

Just Keep My Money! Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds

By: Peter Tufano

This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can foster increased take-up rates for savings products, particularly by low-to-moderate income (LMI) households. Tax refund recipients at certain H&R Block tax preparation... View Details

Keywords: Household; Income; Bonds; Investment; Personal Finance; Saving; Taxation; United States

June 2018
Article

The Fed, the Bond Market, and Gradualism in Monetary Policy

By: Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam

We develop a model of monetary policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has some private information about its long-run target for the policy rate, and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting, discretionary monetary policy... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Interest Rates; Policy; Bonds; Financial Markets