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Advanced Economic Seminars 302: Predicting Corporate Bond Returns:Merton Meets Machine Learning

Publisher:   Time:2023-05-05 15:13:23

Topic: Predicting Corporate Bond Returns:Merton Meets Machine Learning


Lecturer: Prof. Fuwei JIANG, Central University of Finance and Economics


Time: 14:30-16:00 p.m. May 5th, 2023 (Fri.)


Venue: B423, Zhixin Building, Central Campus


Abstract: We investigate the return predictability of corporatebonds using big data and machine learning. We find thatmachine learning models substantially improve the out-ofsample performance of stock and bond characteristics inpredicting future bond returns. We also find a significantimprovement in the performance of machine learningmodels when imposing a theoretically motivated eco .nomic structure from the Merton model, compared to thereduced-form approach without restrictions. Overall, ourwork highlights the importance of explicitly imposing thedependence between expected bond and stock returns viamachine learning and Merton model when investigatingexpected bond returns


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