“…These studies have documented that issuer characteristics such as size, rating, profitability, leverage, equity prices, monetary policy, and the supply of bank credit are important determinants of bond issuance. Other papers have investigated the effects of quantitative easing (Lo Duca, Nicoletti, & Vidal Martinez, 2014), asymmetric information (Gomes & Phillips, 2012) or the Basel reforms on issuance decisions of banks or non-financial corporations (Baba & Inada, 2009). However, there is not much evidence yet on the effect of yields on bond issuances, which is the contribution of this study.…”