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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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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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We show that the stock market price reaction to monetary policy surprises upon announcements of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is explained mostly by changes in the default-free term structure of yields, not by changes in the equity premium. We reach this conclusion based on a new...
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This paper extends the benchmark Macro-Finance model by introducing, next to the standard macroeconomic factors, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor...
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between TV news coverage and the GIIPS countries' bond yield …
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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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The term structure of interest rates does not adhere to the expectations hypothesis, possibly due to a risk premium. We consider the implications of a risk premium that arises from endogenous market segmentation driven by variable inflation rates. In the absence of autocorrelation in inflation,...
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Because of the uncertainty about how to model the growth process of our economy, there is still much confusion about which discount rates should be used to evaluate actions having long-lasting impacts, as in the contexts of climate change, social security reforms or large public infrastructures...
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How should one evaluate investment projects whose CCAPM betas are uncertain? This question is particularly crucial for projects yielding long-lasting impacts on the economy, as is the case for example for many green investments. We define the notion of a certainty equivalent beta. We show that...
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