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Using an aggregate credit spread index, we find that it has substantial predictive power for corporate bond returns over short and long horizons. The return predictability is economically and statistically significant and robust to various controls. The credit spread index and its components...
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Using option prices, a new method for estimating the term structure of expected stock returns (equity curve) is proposed. We analyse how the equity curve relates to future stock returns and obtain three main results. First, a higher level of the equity curve is associated with higher future...
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This paper introduces a major novelty: the empirical estimation of spot intraday yield curves based on tick … in 2007. Our first result is that, from a practical point of view, the intraday yield curve can be modeled by standard … models for yield curves providing advantages for intraday trading on intraday interbank credit markets. Moreover, the …
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Researchers who estimate affine term structure models often impose overidentifying restrictions (restrictions on parameters beyond those necessary for identification) for a variety of reasons. While some of those restrictions seem to have minor effects on the extracted factors and some measures...
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-evaluate the interpretation and empirical use of the yield spread as a predictor of recessions, focusing on the simplified … Center for Financial Stability, the yield spread is shown to be a form of the user cost difference, and use of the user cost … is shown to marginally improve the predictive abilities of the yield spread. Further research into this view of the link …
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Underlying idiosyncratic and illiquidity risks are suppressed in infrequently reported indexes of house prices and rents. Idiosyncratic risks result from bid-ask spreads for prices and rents. Time series autocovariances generate a distribution of prices and rents. Capital gains and rent-price...
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sovereign yield curves, in this paper, we investigate certain characteristics of the Romanian government bond market. We perform … 25 March 2022, the first principal component explained 80.83% of the yield curve changes, the first two 91.92%, and the … years increase more than those at 2 years, leading to yield curve steepenings. Interestingly, we observe that the …
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There is a large and growing literature on spillovers but no study that systematically evaluates the importance of spillovers for portfolio management. This paper provides such an analysis and demonstrates that spillovers are fully embedded in estimates of expected returns, variances, and...
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This paper analyzes the conditional correlations between the stock market returns of countries that are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The innovative aspects of the paper consist of focusing on three volatility indices: the oil (OVX), gold (GVZ), and S&P500 (VIX) markets...
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This study employs the Vector Autoregressive-Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (VAR-AGARCH) model to examine both return and volatility spillovers from the USA (developed) and China (Emerging) towards eight emerging Asian stock markets during the full sample period, the...
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