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title: Financial Fragilities and Risk-taking of Corporate Bond Funds in the Aftermath of Central Bank Policy Interventions
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4463970/
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identifier: SSRN 4463970
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featured: 2025-12-28
citations: 1
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
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# Financial Fragilities and Risk-taking of Corporate Bond Funds in the Aftermath of Central Bank Policy Interventions

It finds that central bank asset purchases during the pandemic led corporate bond fund managers to take more risks, affecting market stability.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4463970
- Identifier: SSRN 4463970
- Released: 2023-05-30
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 124 (2025-12-28): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-12-28/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 1
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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