Using sovereign debt data from 47 countries, we document that the third moment (skewness) of unemployment changes has a positive and significant relation with sovereign bond returns. Thus, while investors require risk premia for exposure to macroeconomic shocks (Campbell, 1996), we find that the...

We revisit the nature of returns to scale beginning with Pástor, Stambaugh, and Taylor (2015). We find that the documented negative relation between scale (at both the fund and industry levels) and return performance is an artifact of extreme observations that comprise less than 0.05% of the...