Sequential Search for Corporate Bonds

We thank Briana Chang (discussant), Tatyana Deryugina, Terry Hendershott, Tim Johnson, Jian Li (discussant), Dmitry Livdan, Yi Li (discussant), Maureen O’Hara, Christian Opp (discussant), Gábor Pintér (discussant), Kerry Y. Siani (discussant), Alan Shepard, Kumar Venkataraman (discussant); conference participants at AEA/CEANA, 18th Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets, FIRS, NBER Asset Pricing Meeting, NBER Big Data and Securities Markets, SED Annual Meeting, Stern/Salomon Microstructure Conference, Tsinghua SEM Conference on Finance and Development, West Coast Search and Matching Workshop; and seminar participants at Bank of Canada, Drexel, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, INSEAD, Paris Dauphine University, Princeton University, UC Berkeley Haas, UC Irvine, UCL, UCLA, UC Riverside, UIUC, USC, Wharton, and University of Wisconsin-Madison for comments and suggestions. Lian Chen provided expert research assistance. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. All errors are our own responsibility. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.