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Price Spreads, Performance, and the Seasoning of New Treasury and Agency Bond Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

John S. Bildersee
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In equilibrium, each new capital asset must be priced properly relative to other assets. If an investor can also buy and sell assets in his portfolio costlessly and quickly, then the new asset will be accepted immediately and fully into the market and it will immediately behave as though it were a seasoned or previously available asset. However, it is often argued that recently issued bonds and seasoned or fully distributed bonds behave differently due to the frictions and risks associated with distributing a new security in the market. And it is also argued that recently issued bonds undergo a behavioral transformation as they become seasoned bonds. According to this argument there are significant empirical behavioral differences between recently issued bonds and seasoned bonds [4,5,7,9,13]. These differences disappear as the market gradually absorbs the new bond issue and the bond becomes “seasoned.”

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 433 - 455
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1977

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