Bond skewness and coskewness (i.e., bond return comovement with market volatility) are both time varying, with cross-sectional variation driven by maturity and credit rating. Other things being equal, longer maturity bonds have lower skewness, and lower coskewness with respect to the bond market...

We use high-frequency data to precisely estimate bond price reactions to macroeconomic announcements and the associated compensation for macro risks. We find evidence of a single factor summarizing the reaction of bond prices to different announcements. Prior to the financial crisis, the factor...

What are the economic determinants of the level and volatility of the second moments of stock and bond returns? We address this central question via the Campbell-Shiller (Campbell and Shiller, 1988) decomposition, with news constructed using survey forecasts. Risk premium news explains most of...

We highlight how the bond "Greeks" drive the relevant factor loadings for the pricing ofTreasury securities. We show that only two factors--the exposures to which are durationand convexity--explain 99.5% of the variation in maturity-scaled yield changes, and bothfactors earn significant risk...