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This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the period 1962-2021 using two different fractional integration approaches including Chebyshev polynomials and Fourier functions respectively. The results for both quarterly and...
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between TV news coverage and the GIIPS countries’ bond yield …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …-specific news have a significant impact on GIIPS yield spreads. A higher share of positive/negative news is positively associated …
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This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
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This paper revisits financial market integration in the European Economic and Monetary Union, using a threshold vector error-correction model (TVECM) for a fixed rolling window. This approach enables us to analyze the dynamics of transaction costs and detect any co-movements with (policy...
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-August 2020, the other from the ECB reporting average monthly values over the period January 1900-August 2020. The estimation …
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This paper applies fractional integration and cointegration methods to examine respectively the univariate properties …
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Conditional yield skewness is an important summary statistic of the state of the economy. It exhibits pronounced … variation over the business cycle and with the stance of monetary policy, and a tight relationship with the slope of the yield … curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has substantial forecasting power for future bond excess returns, high …
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Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...
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We study the effects of news shocks on inventory accumulation in a structural VAR framework. We establish that inventories react strongly and positively to news about future increases in total factor productivity. Theory suggests that the transmission channel of news shocks to inventories works...
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This paper examines the stochastic behaviour of the realized betas within the one-factor CAPM for the six companies with the highest market capitalization included in the Spanish IBEX stock market index. Fractional integration methods are applied to estimate their degree of persistence at the...
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