changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good … on whether the change in global risk is driven by financial shocks rather than by US monetary policy. …

across countries through risk variables, spurring a literature on the "global financial cycle." This paper studies how … (conventional and unconventional) monetary policy shocks affect risk and uncertainty in three large economies: the US, euro area …, and Japan. We construct measures of financial risk factors for each country by decomposing option-implied variances of the …

major sudden risk events. Through the further research, it is found that this effect is mainly transmitted through short …