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title: Bond Fund Industry Concentration and Market Fragility
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4594337/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4594337
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4594337
featured: 2023-10-12
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Bond Fund Industry Concentration and Market Fragility

The article investigates the corporate bond fund industry, concluding that while large funds stabilize the corporate bond market, they also increase the risk to underlying bonds in illiquid markets.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4594337
- Identifier: SSRN 4594337
- Released: 2022-04-27
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 20 (2023-10-12): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-10-12/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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