Viceira, Luis; Pflueger, Carolin; Campbell, John - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2014
The exposure of US Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic...