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green bond returns and volatilities. On the whole, the evidence suggests weaker linkages, and thus a lower degree of …
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curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has substantial forecasting power for future bond excess returns, high …
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*t substantially increases the accuracy of long-range interest rate forecasts, helps predict excess bond returns, improves estimates of …
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for their sovereign bond emissions. For this purpose we analyse financial market data from 288 tradable cantonal bonds in … significantly to lower cantonal bond spreads. Second, we study the impact of a credible no-bailout regime on the risk premia of …
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We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self …
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Were government bond risk premia affected by the media in addition to the effects of major events? Revisiting the … European debt crisis, we analyze the role of television news in the rise and re-convergence of GIIPS bond spreads vis … stability and “international financial support” to distressed countries in reducing bond spreads. Moreover, weekend news enables …
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The price of a safe asset reflects not only the expected discounted future cash flows but also future service flows, since retrading allows partial insurance of idiosyncratic risk in an incomplete markets setting. This lowers the issuers’ interest burden and allows the government to run a...
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This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …
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This paper investigates the informational efficiency of green bond markets using a recently introduced quantitative … inefficiency of the green bond market is generally found to be very similar to that of benchmark bond markets such as treasury bond … green bond markets are very similar to those in the benchmark bond markets. In other words, fundamental factors that drive …
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This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
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