Government bonds are one of the safest and most attractive instruments in the investment portfolio for private investors and investment funds. Although bonds are perceived as an alternative to bank deposits, a number of macroeconomic factors influence their yield. The goal of the research is to...

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the demand for safe government debt to currency unhedged and hedged excess returns in a sample of US mutual funds. We find evidence of active rebalancing towards government bonds that offer relatively higher returns on an unhedged basis, in particular...

We show that the stock market price reaction to monetary policy surprises upon announcements of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is explained mostly by changes in the default-free term structure of yields, not by changes in the equity premium. We reach this conclusion based on a new...

In einer panel-ökonometrischen Studie von 6 international operierenden Banken über 37 Quartale untersuchen wir vier verschiedene Digitalisierungsmaßnahmen hinsichtlich ihres Effekts auf den Return on Equity. Ein Fixed-Effects-Modell mit einem R² von 36% zeigt auf, dass der RoE bei Vorliegen...

Through large-scale asset purchases, widely known as quantitative easing (QE), central banks around the world have affected the supply of safe assets by buying quasi-safe bonds in exchange for truly safe reserves. We examine the pricing effects of the European Central Bank's bond purchases in...

Many advanced economies sell sovereign bonds at a yield below the risk-free rate plus a default risk premium, benefiting from strong demand for safe assets. The literature shows that this "convenience yield" premium diminishes with bond supply but has focused on individual economies in...

Purposes - Indonesian government bond (known as SUN) plays an essential role in financing sustainable development in Indonesia and is a fixed income investment vehicle that attracts foreign investors. This study aims to examine the effect of macroeconomic factors or macro-risk on the yield curve...

The research was carried out at the Turda Agricultural Research and Development Station (ARDS), located in the hilly area of Transylvania and followed the influence of weed infestation on the Felix soybean variety yield, grown in two tillage systems (CS-conventional-plow, NT-...

How willing are individual primary dealers to alter their offered yields in central bank quantitative easing auctions of government bonds in order to sell an additional share of the outstanding amount of a bond to the central bank? This question is of great importance for a central bank's...

Using a comprehensive data set of earthquakes in China, we show that investors perceive increased credit risk in quasi-municipal bonds exposed to devastating earthquakes, leading to a significant positive risk premium. Our study identifies that this bias is temporary and decreases as investors...

Using a semi-supervised topic model on 7,000,000 New York Times articles spanning 160 years, we test whether topics of media discourse predict future stock and bond market returns to test rational and behavioral hypotheses about market valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse...

This paper takes the interest rates of China's government bond as the research object, and demonstrates the feasibility of the yield curve factor model by analyzing the Bootstrap, DNS, AFNS model of yield curve. Then based on the factor construction, construct the yield curve factor. In order to...

Increasing oil and food prices and persistent supply chain disruptions in 2022 contributed to inflation in advanced economies that had not been seen in decades. This pushed up interest rates, which in turn led to higher yields in global bond markets. This study examines two distinct channels...

We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using detailed data on banks' lending activities coupled with term premium shocks identified using high-frequency event study or instrumental variables, we show that a steeper yield curve...

Does Indian sovereign yield volatility reflect economic fundamentals, or whether it is a self-generated force flowing through markets with little connection to such fundamentals? To answer the question, this research explores the volatility dynamics and measures the persistence of shocks to the...

The research was carried out at the Turda Agricultural Research and Development Station (ARDS), located in the hilly area of Transylvania and followed the influence of weed infestation on the Felix soybean variety yield, grown in two tillage systems (CS-conventional-plow, NT-...

The purpose of this study was to assess how multiple expectations of seed systems outcomes, such as closing the yield gap, adapting to climate change, improving nutrition, ensuring equality, enhancing agro-biodiversity, and securing farmers' rights, influence seed systems development in...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, German short-term government bond yields seem to Granger cause long-term government bond yields. Moreover, by examining 2- and ­30-year interest rates, feedback effects between the two time series can be detected. This is not the case when analyzing 2- and 10-year...

This paper investigates the impact of sovereign debt to GDP on the yields of sovereign bonds across different maturities of India from 2000 to 2017 comprising of 18 years of sample period. The empirical analysis was performed on the yearly data of debt to GDP and yields of sovereign bond across...

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was set up in June 2010 as a temporary crisis resolution mechanism. In October 2012, its tasks were taken over by European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a permanent institution with a capital-based structure. Liquidity conditions for EFSF bonds in...

This paper investigates the financial risk-taking behavior of pension funds since 2000. I assemble a new database containing portfolio holdings of more than 100 pension funds from 14 advanced economies. The study reveals three key findings. First, I show that pension fund portfolios have become...

We develop a framework to quantify the convenience yield risk (CYR) inherent to each commodity futures market. Implementing our approach, we document that our novel CYR measure is informative about future commodity returns. In panel regressions, the CYR predicts future returns with a positive...

Expectations of risky bond payments are unobservable and recovery rates for sovereigns are hard to estimate because they have no contractual claims to defined assets and samples of defaults are limited. A geometric version of credit spread is used to derive expected payments, dependent on...

Treasury markets respond to the news in CBO cost estimates of individual bills about the future funding requirements from pending legislation. Treasury yields increase on days with major deficit-increasing bills, driven by an increase in expected inflation and nominal term premia, along with a...

Do returns in private equity (PE) rise or fall with fund scale? This question is increasingly urgent amid larger funds and new focus on the retail market. Since better managers can raise larger funds, the causal effect is difficult to identify. We develop an instrument based on gifts to...

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The research conducted at the Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda (ARDS), situated in the Transilvanian Plateau, they pursued the possibility of obtaining yield increases and quality for the Caro TD soybean variety, cultivated in four tillage systems (CS - conventional plow, MTC...