Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2020
changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good … relevant for the latter countries after the global financial crisis. Finally, the safe asset status does not appear to depend … on whether the change in global risk is driven by financial shocks rather than by US monetary policy. …