This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns … countries. Regarding the volatility spillovers, such spillovers from bond returns to those of stocks are stronger than the other …

denomination and credit rating category) issued by foreign entities did not offer significant risk-adjusted returns and exhibited … disappear when controlling for measures of uncertainty such as stock price volatility. Swiss bond prices rose when stock market …

, cumulatively, due to low bond yields since the onset of the Euro crisis. In order to determine the contribution of the "flight to … quality" to this sum, we define the flight to quality as a factor which has caused German bond yields and crisis country bond …