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The purpose of this paper is to study the compensation for in ation risks priced in sovereign bond yields. And we do so … expected and unexpected in ation shocks embedded in sovereign bond yields; and provides estimates of the real risk-free rate …. We show that nominal sovereign bond yields for Germany, France, Japan and the United States, reflect, over the more …
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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 …
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Researchers who estimate affine term structure models often impose overidentifying restrictions (restrictions on parameters beyond those necessary for identification) for a variety of reasons. While some of those restrictions seem to have minor effects on the extracted factors and some measures...
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We examine time-varying explanatory power of realized moments on subsequent bond futures excess returns using more than … 12 years of high-frequency data from U.S. and German sovereign bond markets. We detect realized volatility and realized … traditional bond return predictors such as term or default spreads. Most importantly, we reveal the bond excess return …
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We show that uncertainty of monetary policy (MPU) commands a risk premium in the US Treasury bond market. Using the … significantly and positively future monthly Treasury bond excess returns. This forecastability remains significant controlling for … standard bond risk premium predictors based on yield curve and macroeconomic fundamentals. The predictive power of MPU is not …
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not spanned by the current yield curve. The disaster risk factor delivers a counter cycle bond risk premium, and the … risk accounts for a sizable portion of variations in the time-varying bond risk premium …
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This paper examines the relation between variations in perceived inflation uncertainty and bond premia. Using the …-based ex-post measures of macroeconomic risk. Inflation uncertainty is an important driver of bond premia, but the relation … forecasts appears a much less important driver of bond premia. …
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This paper studies the impact of ambiguous information regarding future interest rates on bond prices. A simple bond …-pricing model with ambiguity aversion shows that positive bond uncertainty premiums exist, and the interest rate ambiguity affects … rate ambiguity based on the Survey of Professional Forecasters data significantly predict U.S. Treasury bond returns …
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current labor market conditions (as measured by labor market tightness or the job-finding rate) and future bond excess returns …
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equity term structure cyclicality and the upward sloping bond term structure …
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