Table Of ContentDebt Markets and Investments
FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENTS SERIES
H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck, Series Editors
Portfolio Theory and Management
Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
Public Real Estate Markets and Investments
Edited by H. Kent Baker and Peter Chinloy
Private Real Estate Markets and Investments
Edited by H. Kent Baker and Peter Chinloy
Investment Risk Management
Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
Private Equity: Opportunities and Risks
Edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Halil Kiymaz
Mutual Funds and Exchange- Traded Funds: Building Blocks to Wealth
Edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Halil Kiymaz
Financial Behavior: Players, Services, Products, and Markets
Edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Victor Riccardi
Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance
Edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck
Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies
Edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Jeffrey H. Harris
Debt Markets and Investments
Edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Andrew C. Spieler
Debt Markets and 
Investments
EDITED BY
H. KENT BAKER, GREG FILBECK,   
AND
 ANDREW C. SPIELER
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CONTENTS
  List of Figures  ix
  List of Tables  xiii
  Acknowledgments  xvii
  About the Editors  xix
  About the Contributors  xxi
PART I  BACKGROUND
    1. Debt Markets and Investments: An Overview  3
H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Andrew C. Spieler
    2. Debt Fundamentals and Indices  23
Ryan J. Dodge, Steven T. Petra, and Andrew C. Spieler
    3. Interest Rate Risk, Measurement, and Management  41
Tom Barkley
    4. Other Risks Associated with Debt Securities  63
Randolph D. Nordby
PART II  MARKET SECTORS
    5. Government Debt  81
Keith Pareti and Rob Kennedy
    6. Municipal Bonds  95
Xiaohu Deng, Christopher Goebert, Gershon Morgulis, and 
Isaac Yates
    7. Corporate Bond Markets  113
Kelly E. Carter
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    8. Securitized Debt Markets  131
Şenay Ağca and Saiyid S. Islam
    9. Derivatives Markets  151
Halil Kiymaz and Koray D. Simsek
   10. Short- Term Funding and Financing Alternatives  167
Benjamin Aguilar, Ajit Jain, and Kevin Neaves
   11. Private Debt Markets  185
Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, and Zhangxin (Frank) Liu
PART III  YIELD CURVES, SWAP CURVES, AND INTEREST 
RATE MODELS
   12. Yield Curves, Swap Curves, and Term Structure of Interest Rates  203
Tom P. Davis and Dmitri Mossessian
   13. Models of the Yield Curve and Term Structure  229
Tom P. Davis and Dmitri Mossessian
PART IV  BOND PRODUCTS
   14. International Bonds  249
Soutonnoma Ouedraogo, David Scofield, and Garrett C. Smith
   15. Floating Rate Notes  265
Aby Abraham, John Casares, and Jibran Ali Shah
   16. Bonds with Embedded Options  283
Christopher J. Barnes, Gaurav Gupta, and Joseph F. Abinanti
   17. Bond Mutual Funds, Closed- End Bond Funds, and Exchange- Traded 
Funds  305
Halil Kiymaz and Koray D. Simsek
   18. Other Bond Products: Social Impact Bonds, Death Bonds, Catastrophe 
Bonds, Green Bonds, and Covered Bonds  325
Erik Devos, Robert Karpowicz, and Andrew C. Spieler
   19. Inflation- Linked Bonds  345
John Lettieri, Gerald O’Donnell, Seow Eng Ong, and 
Desmond Tsang
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PART V  SECURITIZED PRODUCTS
   20. Securitization Process  365
Mark Ferguson, Joseph McBride, and Kevin Tripp
   21. Mortgage- Backed Securities: Mortgage Pass-Through Securities  383
Mingwei (Max) Liang and Milena Petrova
   22. Asset- Backed Securities  403
Massimo Guidolin and Manuela Pedio
   23. Collateralized Debt Obligations, Collateralized Bond Obligations, and 
Collateralized Loan Obligations  421
Robert Eckrote, Christopher Milliken, Ehsan Nikbakht, and 
Andrew C. Spieler
PART VI  BOND VALUATION AND ANALYSIS
   24. Factors Affecting Bond Pricing and Valuation  437
Mark Wu, Xiang Gao, and Robert Wieczorek II
   25. Valuing and Analyzing Bonds with Embedded Options  453
Yiying Cheng
   26. Valuing and Analyzing Mortgage- Backed and Asset- Backed 
Securities  477
Matthew Dyer
   27. Valuing and Analyzing Fixed Income Derivatives  501
Koray D. Simsek and Halil Kiymaz
PART VII  SPECIAL TOPICS
   28. Credit Analysis and Ratings  523
Peter Dadalt, Michael Gueli, Rafay Khalid, and Ling Zhang
   29. Bond Auctions  547
Mark Wu, Patrick Herb, and Shishir Paudel
   30. Bond Accounting  567
Oluwaseyi Adebayo Awoga
   31. High Yield Bonds  599
Byron C. Barnes, Tony Calenda, and Elvis Rodriguez
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   32. Distressed Debt  621
Seoyoung Kim
   33. Microstructure of Fixed Income Trading  639
Matthew John Jerabeck, Marc Perkins, and David Petruzzellis
PART VIII  STRATEGIES, PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT,  
AND FUTURE OUTLOOK
   34. Debt Investment Strategies  661
Steven Cosares, Taylor Riggs, and Andrew C. Spieler
   35. Debt Portfolio Management  679
Zachary Jersky and He Li
   36. Debt Trends and Future Outlook  699
Dianna Preece
  Discussion Questions and Answers  717
  Index  763
FIGURES
  3.1  Macaulay Duration: A Representation of Cash Flows  46
  3.2  Macaulay Duration versus Maturity  48
  3.3  Modified Duration Approximation  50
  3.4  Properties of Convexity  53
  8.1  A Simplified Securitized Debt Transaction Structure  133
  8.2  Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) Issuance  139
  8.3  Types of U.S. Non- Agency Securitized Debt Issuance in 2017  146
  8.4  Global Share of Non- Agency Securitized Debt Issuance in 2017  147
  8.5  Recent Non- Agency Securitized Debt Issuance in the Three Largest 
Markets  147
  9.1  Growth of the Over-t he- Counter Interest Rate Derivatives Markets  152
  9.2  Daily Average Turnover for Interest Rate Derivatives  153
  9.3  Exchange- Traded Interest Rate Derivatives  154
  9.4  Key Dates for an FRA  156
 10.1  Purchase Order Financing Mechanics Illustration  175
 11.1  Firm Size, Information Availability, and Types of Private Debt  186
 12.1  Spline Instability  211
 12.2  Fitted U.S. Treasury Curve for June 8, 2017, Together with Market Quoted 
Yields for All Traded Notes and Bonds  218
 12.3  Time Series of the Spreads to a Fitted Curve  219
 12.4  European Basis Spreads Before and After the Global Financial Crisis  222
 12.5  EURIBOR Projection Curves and EONIA Discounting Curves for 
September 20, 2017  224
 15.1  Plain Floating Rate Note  269
 15.2  Capped Floating Rate Note  270
 15.3  Floored Floating Rate Note  271
 15.4  Collared Floating Rate Note  271
 16.1  Profit Diagrams of Long/ Short Call/ Put Options  286
 16.2  Price- Yield Relation for Callable, Puttable, and Option- Free Bonds  290
 16.3  Convertible Issuance by Region between 2005 and 2016  293
 16.4  Implied Market Capitalization of Outstanding Convertible Bonds by 
Sector  294
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