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Green bonds are about a decade old financial instrument with cash flows earmarked to improve the environment or combat climate change. We show the spectacular growth of the asset class over time, but note that it is currently still less than 1% of the entire fixed income market. The composition...
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pricing channel in addition to any direct dissemination impact. TRACE-associated improvement in bond valuation precision …
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is most needed. We examine bond correlation using a broad sample of US corporate bonds. We find bond correlation to be … higher during the financial crisis in 2008. Increased bond correlation results from higher correlation between corporate bond … risk factors. Risk factor correlation increases when investor sentiment worsens. This suggests that corporate bond …
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-return relations of government bond portfolios. Motivated by this finding, we derive a global stochastic discount factor, which prices … excess returns of individual bond markets and international bond portfolio strategies. The SDF is supported by standard … validation tests, but the fraction of unpriced components of bond returns is high, at around 50%. Hedging internationally …
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Numerical calculation of Value-at-Risk (VaR) for large-scale portfolios poses great challenges to financial institutions. The problem is even more daunting for large fixed-income portfolios as their underlying instruments have exposure to higher dimensions of risk factors. This article provides...
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We empirically investigate the importance of parameter uncertainty to bond investors. Using a Bayesian approach, we …
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Accepted wisdom, assuming capital market equilibrium and low cash returns, advises investors to hold optimal portfolios containing little cash. But credit crunches - periods of non-price credit rationing when effective cash yields are very high - happen in the real world. Because of this, it is...
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This paper analyzes the relation between country specific high-frequency activity indicators and bond holdings in the … portfolio of global investors. Based on positions from more than 20,000 investment funds, we show that bond flows are clearly … important drivers of bond purchases. We show that this effect of activity data - as captured by the Purchasing Managers' Indices …
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Purposes - Indonesian government bond (known as SUN) plays an essential role in financing sustainable development in … macroeconomic factors or macro-risk on the yield curve of the SUN bond. Methodology - The type of data used in this study is … are some government bodies such as the Bank Indonesia website (www.bi.go.id) and the Indonesian site Bond Market Directory …
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no leverage. Yet using unique granular data on the bond holdings of institutional funds, we show that their trading …
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