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 …

*t substantially increases the accuracy of long-range interest rate forecasts, helps predict excess bond returns, improves estimates of …

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

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 …

Recent findings on the term structure of equity and bond yields pose serious challenges to existing models of … dynamics of equity and bond yields (and their yield spreads). The movements of equity and bond yields are driven mainly by … returns/yields and nominal bond returns/yields switched from positive to negative after the late 1990s, owing mainly to a …

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 …

We find that augmenting a regression of excess bond returns on the term structure of forward rates with a rolling … estimate of the mean realized jump size - identified from high-frequency bond returns using the bi-power variation technique … the conditional distribution of excess bond returns is affected by a state variable that does not lie in the span of the …