interest rates - is a strong predictor of U.S. Treasury bond returns of maturities ranging between one and ten years for return … qualitatively replicates the predictability pattern of IRVRP for bond returns. …

Taking advantage of recently augmented corporate bond transaction data, we examine the pricing implications of informed … asymmetry seem to capture adverse selection in corporate bond trading reasonably well. We demonstrate that information asymmetry … in bond trading has explanatory power for corporate bond yield spreads, and this result holds after controlling for the …

This paper investigates whether ETF returns lead the returns of underlying bonds and similar style bond funds. Bond … predicted, we find that ETF returns predict its own NAV returns and aggregated ETF returns for each bond also predict the … underlying bond returns on a monthly basis. We show that bond liquidity is the determining factor of the predictability and the …

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 …

observed government bond yields and survey-based expected average short rates. Our term premiums measured directly based on … rates, and uncover a number of important facts: 1) the bulk of the variation in medium- and long-term bond yields is driven … shocks playing the most prominent role; and 5) the secular decline of U.S. long-term bond yields over the past thirty years …

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 …

instabilities in the linkages between bond risk premia and macroeconomic factors …

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 …

information for forecasting bond risk premia in a macro-finance term structure model from the perspective of a bond investor. I … forecaster's objective. Incorporating macro information generates significant gains in forecasting bond risk premia relative to …