Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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960504 | Journal of Financial Economics | 2007 | 40 Pages |
Abstract
Municipal bonds trade in decentralized broker-dealer markets, and are underpriced when issued, but unlike equities the average price rises slowly over several days. Newly issued municipal bonds have high levels of price dispersion and the average price rises because the mix of trade sizes changes over time. While large trades occur close to the reoffering price, small trades occur between the reoffering price to as much as 5% above the reoffering price. Using a mixed-distribution model we quantify the losses uninformed traders or issuers give up to broker-dealers.
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Authors
Richard C. Green, Burton Hollifield, Norman Schürhoff,