We document a strong positive cross-sectional relation between corporate bond yield spreads and bond return … volatilities. As corporate bond prices are generally attributable to both credit risk and illiquidity as discussed in Huang and …, our credit and illiquidity proxies can explain almost three quarters of the yield spread-bond volatility relation with …

We find that augmenting a regression of excess bond returns on the term structure of forward rates with a rolling … estimate of the mean realized jump size - identified from high-frequency bond returns using the bi-power variation technique … the conditional distribution of excess bond returns is affected by a state variable that does not lie in the span of the …

In emerging market economies, currency appreciation goes hand in hand with compressed sovereign bond spreads, even for … rate. Our findings highlight endogenous co-movement of bond risk premia and exchange rates through the portfolio choice of …

We find evidence for time-varying risk premia across international bond markets. Local and global factors jointly … predict returns. The global factor is closely linked to US bond risk premia and international business cycles. Movements in … factors. Finally, correlations between international bond risk premia have increased over time, suggesting an increase in …

The endeavor to understand bond returns and the term structure of interest rates has generated an extensive literature … perspective. This chapter reviews the relevant literature while also providing empirical evidence on international bond risk …

stylized facts. In a decomposition of long-term bond returns we find that the expectations component from the level factor is … innovations in the level factor to explain the volatility of long-term bond returns. The model also implies that excess bond …

stylized facts. In a decomposition of long-term bond returns we find that the expectations component from the level factor is … innovations in the level factor to explain the volatility of long-term bond returns. The model also implies that excess bond …

Understanding the behaviour of the equity yield and its relation to the bond yield is important for portfolio managers … previously greater than the bond yield-declined, while the bond yield rose and became higher. Research, seeking to understand … this, put forward the view that stock and bond return volatility is key. Evidence from the 2000s suggest that the relative …