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In this paper prices of corporate bonds are decomposed into elements associated with (1) the pure price of time, (2) the default risk of the agency rating class to which the bond is assigned, and (3) the unique risk and ancillary features of the bond itself.
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Boardman et al. (1981) studied this question.
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