This paper uses the factor augmented regression framework to analyze the relation between bond excess returns and the … macro economy. Using a panel of 131 monthly macroeconomic time series for the sample 1964:1-2007:12, we estimate 8 static … statistically significant predictive power for excess bond returns. We show how a bias correction to the parameter estimates of …

Earlier studies in the finance literature show that macroeconomic fundamentals can predict excess bond returns. We … less than the real factors; (iii) the inflation factors have almost no predictivepower and (iv) the excess bond returns …

"This paper uses the factor augmented regression framework to analyze the relation between bond excess returns and the … macro economy. Using a panel of 131 monthly macroeconomic time series for the sample 1964:1-2007:12, we estimate 8 static … statistically significant predictive power for excess bond returns. We show how a bias correction to the parameter estimates of …

"Analysis and commentary on economics, the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, the bond markets, and politics, selected …