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title: What Is a Corporate Bond Spread Made of? Decomposition, Pricing and a Real-Time Backtest in Brazil’s Debenture Market
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7637398/
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updated: 2026-10-23
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 7637398
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7637398
featured: 2026-10-23
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
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# What Is a Corporate Bond Spread Made of? Decomposition, Pricing and a Real-Time Backtest in Brazil’s Debenture Market

Decomposing debenture spreads into issuer, market, and contract components shows issuer risk explains 54 percent of variance, enabling out-of-sample pricing within 14 basis points.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7637398
- Identifier: SSRN 7637398
- Released: 2026-10-21
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 136 (2026-10-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-10-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility
- Authors: Gabriel Pires

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