German government debt is considered a safe asset in times of turbulence. We estimate the impact of changes in the risk appetite of global investors on weekly investment fund flows into the German sovereign bond market. Our key contribution is to allow the impact of such shocks to depend on the...

I develop a model-based definition of time-varying sovereign bond safety, and apply it empirically by constructing a news-based index, the FLY, that measures global safe-assets demand. The FLY captures flight-to-safety episodes, the savings glut, and natural interest rate declines. Estimated FLY...

Central bank collateral policy specifies which assets banks can pledge as collateral to obtain central bank funding and is an important determinant of liquidity in the banking system. We propose a high-frequency identification approach to study the systematic effects of central bank collateral...

Using a novel arbitrage-free dynamic term structure model of nominal and real bond prices that accounts for bond-specific liquidity risk premia, this paper provides estimates of bond investors' inflation expectations and associated inflation risk premia in South African sovereign bonds. The...

This study examines the impact of international trade shocks from South Africa and recent U.S. federal tax reforms on state-level municipal bond returns within the United States. Employing a unique transaction-level dataset comprising more than 50 million municipal bond trades from 2020 to 2024,...

We study how the introduction of pre- and post-trade transparency requirements affected dealer behavior and market liquidity in the German sovereign bonds market. Using regulatory data on bond transactions collected under EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and limit order...

This paper provides issuance-level evidence from an emerging economy with a dual-currency primary bond market, showing that currency denomination not only affects the level of corporate bond spreads but also fundamentally reshapes the transmission of macro-financial shocks across credit ratings....

This study examines asymmetric spillovers among U.S. sector stocks, the Islamic stock index, conventional bonds, green bonds, and commodity markets. Using the TVP-VAR connectedness approach, we decompose total connectedness into positive and negative spillovers to capture asymmetric market...

Climate-linked bonds, issued by governments and supranational organizations, are pivotal in advancing towards a net-zero economy. These bonds adjust their payoffs based on climate variables such as average temperature and greenhouse gas emissions, providing investors a hedge against long-term...

This study investigates the challenges impeding the development of an effective green bond market in Vietnam and evaluates its potential to support the country's transition from carbon-intensive industries to a greener economy, in line with its climate commitments.This study uses a qualitative...

This research examines the challenges of issuing green bonds due to a lack of established benchmarks. We compare regional differences between the U.S. and the E.U., hypothesizing that issuers of green bonds stand to benefit from comparing them to conventional (black) bonds. As most investors...

This note explores the connection between the varied investor profiles of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and open-ended mutual funds (OEMFs) and the return volatility of the securities they hold. Based on the security-level data of US ETF and OEMF holdings, the analysis suggests that, on...