We study what makes government bonds a safe asset. Building on a sample of monthly changes in government bond yields in … changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good …

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 …