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

estimate "macro risk factors" that drive "bad" (negatively skewed) and "good" (positively skewed) variation for supply and … significantly contribute to the variation yields, risk premiums and return variances for nominal bonds. While overall bond risk … premiums are counter-cyclical, an increase in demand variance lowers risk premiums …

across countries through risk variables, spurring a literature on the "global financial cycle." This paper studies how … (conventional and unconventional) monetary policy shocks affect risk and uncertainty in three large economies: the US, euro area …, and Japan. We construct measures of financial risk factors for each country by decomposing option-implied variances of the …

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 …