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title: International Corporate Bond Returns Prediction with ML
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4506223/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4506223
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4506223
featured: 2023-07-12
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# International Corporate Bond Returns Prediction with ML

Machine learning is used to forecast global corporate bond returns, showing varying influential factors in U.S. and non-U.S. markets and different levels of bond integration among countries.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4506223
- Identifier: SSRN 4506223
- Released: 2022-06-27
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 7 (2023-07-12): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-07-12/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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