This paper revisits the study of time-varying excess bond returns in international bond markets. Using newly available … the predictability of excess bond returns …

We find evidence for time-varying risk premia across international bond markets. Local and global factors jointly … predict returns. The global factor is closely linked to US bond risk premia and international business cycles. Movements in … factors. Finally, correlations between international bond risk premia have increased over time, suggesting an increase in …

The endeavor to understand bond returns and the term structure of interest rates has generated an extensive literature … perspective. This chapter reviews the relevant literature while also providing empirical evidence on international bond risk …

This paper examines the macro-spanning hypothesis for bond returns in international markets. Based on a large panel of … bond returns unspanned by yield factors.Furthermore, we estimate macro-finance term structure models (MTSMs) with the …-movements in forward term premia in global bond markets …

emerging countries, we demonstrate that the expansion of the disease significantly affects sovereign bond markets. The growth …

This paper attempts to find an aggregate leading indicator to predict the spreads observed for high-yield (HY) bond …