This paper assesses whether the global fall in inflation expectations together with increased fear of recession, the economic mechanism that drives asset prices in a model with consumption habits, help to explain the downward trajectory in nominal government bond yields and the stock price...

A start of a modern-era financial innovation on capital and financial markets is usually dated around the 1970s. Drawing on two broad assumptions that (i) capital markets are important and (ii) hybrid securities are an important part of capital markets, since hybrid issues exist and continue...