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-specific factors. In an empirical analysis of term structures of government bond yields for the Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U …The popular Nelson-Siegel (1987) yield curve is routinely fit to cross sections of intra-country bond yields, and …
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actions to foreign bond yields is, on balance, comparable to that of conventional policy actions. In addition, a conventional … international bond markets …
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We analyze reallocations within the international bond portfolios of US investors. The most striking empirical … economic growth. We also provide a descriptive analysis of global bond markets' structure and returns …
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follow simple time-series processes whose parameters can be estimated from the cross-section of bond prices. The extracted …
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The recent introduction of CPI-linked bonds by several financial institutions is a milestone in the history of the U.S. financial system. It has potentially far-reaching effects on individual and institutional asset allocation decisions because these securities represent the only true long-run...
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The paper presents a framework for analyzing the degree of financial transmission between money, bond and equity …
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Although international financial markets are highly integrated across the more well-developed countries, investors nevertheless hold portfolios that consist nearly exclusively of domestic assets. This violation of the predictions of standard theories of portfolio choice is known as the...
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We characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U … that news surprises produce conditional mean jumps; hence high-frequency stock, bond and exchange rate dynamics are linked … apparent time-varying correlation between stock and bond returns, and the relatively small equity market news announcement …
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From a macroeconomic perspective, the short-term interest rate is a policy instrument under the direct control of the central bank. From a finance perspective, long rates are risk-adjusted averages of expected future short rates. Thus, as illustrated by much recent research, a joint...
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important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper presents a detailed study of this phenomenon in the corporate bond … of bond and issuer controls, including bond liquidity and duration, and issuer fixed effects. This behavior is related to …
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