Showing 1 - 10 of 7,720
Currency denomination is a prominent feature in the analysis of the structure of international bond markets, but is … bond holdings—indirectly because the global holdings dataset does not differentiate by currency denomination—and then more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962726
foreign real bonds. Bonds matter: in equilibrium, investors structure their bond portfolio to hedge real exchange rate risk … since relative bond returns are strongly correlated with real exchange rate movements. Equity home bias does not arise from … against other sources of risk, conditionally on bond returns. We estimate the optimal equity and bond portfolios implied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118846
Value stocks have higher exposure to innovations in the nominal bond risk premium, which measures the markets … when nominal bond risk premia are low and declining, are associated with lower future dividend growth rates on value minus … growth and with lower future output growth in the short term. Because of this new nexus between stock and bond returns, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148389
We document that governments whose local currency debt provides them with greater hedging benefits actually borrow more in foreign currency. We introduce two features into a government's debt portfolio choice problem to explain this finding: risk-averse lenders and lack of monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983672
Much recent work has documented evidence for predictability of asset returns. We show how such predictability can affect the portfolio choices of long-lived investors who value wealth not for its own sake but for the consumption their wealth can support. We develop an approximate solution method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787560
The recent introduction of CPI-linked bonds by several financial institutions is a milestone in the history of the U.S. financial system. It has potentially far-reaching effects on individual and institutional asset allocation decisions because these securities represent the only true long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763488
foot-print of sector rotation has predictive power for the evolution of the economy and future bond market returns, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135882
We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovements and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We … stock and bond return correlations, but that other factors, especially liquidity proxies, play a more important role. The … macro factors are still important in fitting bond return volatility; whereas the "variance premium" is critical in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151357
I believe that every tax-paying firm's defined benefit pension fund portfolio should be invested entirely in bonds (or insurance contracts). Although the firm's pension funds are legally distinct from the firm, there is a close tie between the performance of the pension fund investments and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786236
to two types, a common stock fund and a money-fixed bond fund of a particular maturity. A second goal is to study the … offering a choice of only two funds, a diversified stock fund and an intermediate-term bond fund. Most of this loss can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763301