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title: Bond Market Fragility and Large Funds
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4673873/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4673873
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4673873
featured: 2024-01-03
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Bond Market Fragility and Large Funds

The study shows that large fund trades stabilize the corporate bond market but can introduce fragility during illiquid markets, with bond return volatility and fund size inversely related.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4673873
- Identifier: SSRN 4673873
- Released: 2022-04-27
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 31 (2024-01-03): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-01-03/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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