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 …

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

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …