, purchasing a bond at 80 would trigger an 8-point tax liability. The paper develops a rigorous approach to the pricing of munis by … duration of a 10-year taxable bond is roughly 8.5 years, while that of a 10-year muni can exceed 13 years. Tax …

Equilibrium bond-pricing models rely on inflation being bad news for future growth to generate upward-sloping nominal …

we label Convergence Gap (CG), contains information that is valuable for bond predictability. Adding CG in forecasting … regressions of bond excess returns significantly raises the R-squared, and restores countercyclical variation in bond risk premia … the path of rates, our factor has predictive ability for real bond excess returns. The importance of the gap remains …

stance of monetary/fiscal policy. Accounting for risk premia in the fiscal theory allows the government portfolio to affect … fiscal theory directly depend on the conditional nominal term premium, giving rise to an optimal debt maturity policy that is …