Chart: Figure 1: Baa-Treasury Credit Spread (1925-2015)#
Interactive replication of Figure I: the monthly Baa-Treasury credit spread over the 1925-2015 sample, with NBER recessions shaded.
Chart#
Sources: FRED, Office of Financial Research
Baa (long-term corporate bond) yield minus the 10-year Treasury yield, monthly, 1925-2015. Recession shading uses the historical NBER indicator series.
Chart Specs#
Chart Name |
Figure 1: Baa-Treasury Credit Spread (1925-2015) |
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Chart ID |
figure_1_replication |
Tags |
Credit Spread, Baa, Figure 1 |
Data Series Start Date |
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Data Frequency |
Monthly |
Observation Period |
Monthly average |
Lag in Data Release |
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Data Release Timing |
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Seasonal Adjustment |
Not Seasonally Adjusted |
Units |
Percentage Points |
HTML Chart |
Dataframe Manifest#
Dataframe Name |
FRED Processed Monthly Series |
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Dataframe ID |
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Sources |
FRED, Office of Financial Research |
Providers |
FRED, Office of Financial Research |
Provider Links |
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Tags |
Processed Data, Macroeconomic Data, Fred |
Access Types |
Public |
How is data pulled? |
Web API via Python |
Data available up to (min) |
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Data available up to (max) |
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Dataframe Path |
C:\Users\fraff\OneDrive\Documentos\UChicago\FINM_32900_Full_Stack_Quantitative_Finance\Project\p03_lopez_salido_stein_zakrajsek_2017_data\processed_data\fred_final_series_monthly.parquet |
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Pipeline Manifest#
Pipeline Name |
Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle |
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Pipeline ID |
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Maintainer |
Fernando Raffo, Bangjie Xu |
Contributors |
Fernando Raffo, Bangjie Xu |
Repository |
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Pipeline Web Page |
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Date of Last Code Update |
2026-08-19 22:04:54 |
OS Compatibility |
Windows, Linux, MacOS |
Linked Dataframes |
P01:fred_macroeconomic_variables |