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title: Corporate Bond Pricing Challenges
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4478575/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4478575
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4478575
featured: 2025-12-28
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Corporate Bond Pricing Challenges

The effectiveness of multifactor models for corporate bond returns is debated, with a preference for the bond CAPM in analyses.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4478575
- Identifier: SSRN 4478575
- Released: 2023-04-11
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 124 (2025-12-28): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-12-28/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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