we label Convergence Gap (CG), contains information that is valuable for bond predictability. Adding CG in forecasting … regressions of bond excess returns significantly raises the R-squared, and restores countercyclical variation in bond risk premia … the path of rates, our factor has predictive ability for real bond excess returns. The importance of the gap remains …

This research investigates the macro factors for forecasting (1) bond risk premia and (2) term structure of government … bond yields by using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) based on empirical prior. Different from the traditional variable … further improve the other method's forecasting performance. The performance of using BMA to forecast bond excess return is …

I provide evidence that risks in macroeconomic fundamentals contain valuable information about bond risk premia. I … account for up to 31% of the variation in excess bond returns. The main predictor factors are associated with point … unemployment rate. In addition, factors provide information about bond risk premia variation that is largely unrelated to that …

This paper studies the predictability of bond risk premia by means of expectations to future business conditions using … excess bond returns and that the inclusion of expected business conditions in standard predictive regressions improve … both statistically and from the perspective of a mean-variance investor that trades in the bond market …

This paper studies whether the evident statistical predictability of bond risk premia translates into economic gains … for investors. We propose a novel estimation strategy for a ne term structure models that jointly fits yields and bond … uncertainty. Overall, the expectation hypothesis remains a useful benchmark for investment decisions in bond markets, especially …

yields have strong predictive power for bond risk premia, in contrast to the factors based on yield levels. We also provide … insights into the impact this has on the added value of macro data for bond risk premia predictions and the recent conclusion …

This paper documents a significantly stronger relationship between the slope of the yield curve and future excess bond …