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Autori principali: Dickerson, Alexander, Robotti, Cesare, Rossetti, Giulio
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07880
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author Dickerson, Alexander
Robotti, Cesare
Rossetti, Giulio
author_facet Dickerson, Alexander
Robotti, Cesare
Rossetti, Giulio
contents Corporate bond factor research faces a replication crisis. The crisis stems from two sources that inflate reported factor premia: transaction prices whose measurement error enters both sorting signals and return denominators, creating a correlated errors-in-variables bias, and asymmetric ex-post return filtering that embeds future information into factor construction. Applying our framework to a 'factor zoo' of 108 signals across nine thematic clusters, we show that the majority of previously documented factors do not produce statistically significant bond CAPM alphas after correction. We provide an open source framework via Open Bond Asset Pricing, including error-corrected TRACE data, bias corrected factors, and software for reproducible research.
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spellingShingle The Corporate Bond Factor Replication Crisis
Dickerson, Alexander
Robotti, Cesare
Rossetti, Giulio
Pricing of Securities
Corporate bond factor research faces a replication crisis. The crisis stems from two sources that inflate reported factor premia: transaction prices whose measurement error enters both sorting signals and return denominators, creating a correlated errors-in-variables bias, and asymmetric ex-post return filtering that embeds future information into factor construction. Applying our framework to a 'factor zoo' of 108 signals across nine thematic clusters, we show that the majority of previously documented factors do not produce statistically significant bond CAPM alphas after correction. We provide an open source framework via Open Bond Asset Pricing, including error-corrected TRACE data, bias corrected factors, and software for reproducible research.
title The Corporate Bond Factor Replication Crisis
topic Pricing of Securities
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07880