Corporate bond returns in the major developed economies increase with risk, as measured by maturity and ratings. From a …

We study how monetary policy and risk shocks affect asset prices in the US, the euro area, and Japan, differentiating …. Communication shocks from the US spill over to risk in the euro area and vice versa, but traditional US shocks show no spillover … effects to risk. Both monetary policy and communication shocks spill over to stocks, with euro area information spillovers …

Innovations in volatility constitute a potentially important asset pricing risk factor that can be tested using the … world to U.S. based equity variance risk. We explore implications for global risk premiums and asset return comovements … exhibit negative loadings on the variance risk factor. These exposures, combined with the average return to the variance swap …

Little is known about the location of bank risk, i.e., which investors in which countries hold bank-issued securities … like bonds and stocks. In this paper, we analyze the (re-)distribution of bank risk across asset classes (short- and long … contains information on securities holdings at the ISIN level. Our main findings are as follows. First, bank risk is held …