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exist multiple pricing kernels that produce the same bond prices, but a unique pricing kernel equal to the marginal utility …, and estimate the model with both inflation and term structure data. The estimates imply that the bond portfolio for the … changes in term premia generates large hedging demands for long-term bonds …
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implications of this finding for asset prices. The uncovered dynamics of consumption implies modestly upward sloping real bond and …
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to two types, a common stock fund and a money-fixed bond fund of a particular maturity. A second goal is to study the … only two funds, a diversified stock fund and an intermediate-term bond fund. Most of this loss can be eliminated by …
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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...
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foot-print of sector rotation has predictive power for the evolution of the economy and future bond market returns, even …
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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 …
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long-term bonds has both a myopic component and an intertemporal hedging component. As risk aversion increases, the myopic … component shrinks to zero but the hedging component does not. An infinitely risk-averse investor who is infinitely unwilling to … model to postwar US data and compare consumption and portfolio rules with and without bond indexation, portfolio constraints …
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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 …
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We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks in the context of their co-existence with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create safe claims by relying on deposit insurance,...
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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 … the co-movements between relative stock returns and real exchange rates, but from the hedging properties of stock returns …
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