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Municipal (muni) bonds are risky and trade in illiquid markets, and both effects serve to raise muni yields relative to Treasuries. On the other hand, the tax exemption of muni bonds tends to lower their yields. We decompose the muni yield spread into credit, liquidity, and tax components....
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volatility portfolios still significantly reduce equity market risk in the 21st century, but the factor spends slightly longer …
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We study the nature of systemic sovereign credit risk using CDS spreads for the U.S. Treasury, individual U.S. states, and major European countries. Using a multifactor affine framework that allows for both systemic and sovereign-specific credit shocks, we find that there is considerable...
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volatility over the next month, but with decreasing realized volatility. These predictability patterns are consistent with …
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We examine the pricing of aggregate volatility risk in the cross-section of stock returns. Consistent with theory, we … find that stocks with high sensitivities to innovations in aggregate volatility have low average returns. In addition, we … find that stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility relative to the Fama and French (1993) model have abysmally low average …
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We examine how volatility risk, both at the aggregate market and individual stock level, is priced in the cross …-section of expected stock returns. Stocks that have past high sensitivities to innovations in aggregate volatility have low … average returns. We also find that stocks with past high idiosyncratic volatility have abysmally low returns, but this cannot …
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We study the nature of systemic sovereign credit risk using CDS spreads for the U.S. Treasury, individual U.S. states, and major European countries. Using a multifactor affine framework that allows for both systemic and sovereign-specific credit shocks, we find that there is considerable...
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