We study what makes government bonds a safe asset. Building on a sample of monthly changes in government bond yields in … changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good …

Purposes - Indonesian government bond (known as SUN) plays an essential role in financing sustainable development in … macroeconomic factors or macro-risk on the yield curve of the SUN bond. Methodology - The type of data used in this study is … are some government bodies such as the Bank Indonesia website (www.bi.go.id) and the Indonesian site Bond Market Directory …

curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has substantial forecasting power for future bond excess returns, high …