Expectations of risky bond payments are unobservable and recovery rates for sovereigns are hard to estimate because …

I provide evidence that risks in macroeconomic fundamentals contain valuable information about bond risk premia. I … account for up to 31% of the variation in excess bond returns. The main predictor factors are associated with point … unemployment rate. In addition, factors provide information about bond risk premia variation that is largely unrelated to that …

This paper examines the relation between variations in perceived inflation uncertainty and bond premia. Using the …-based ex-post measures of macroeconomic risk. Inflation uncertainty is an important driver of bond premia, but the relation … forecasts appears a much less important driver of bond premia. …

In this paper we study empirically the implications of macroeconomic disagreement for the time variation in bond market … bond returns. Using survey data on macroeconomic forecasts of fundamentals spanning interest rates, real aggregates and … of risk so that a single factor proxy for disagreement forecasts bond returns with ℛ2 between 15%- 20%. Secondly, by …

This paper studies the predictability of bond risk premia by means of expectations to future business conditions using … excess bond returns and that the inclusion of expected business conditions in standard predictive regressions improve … both statistically and from the perspective of a mean-variance investor that trades in the bond market …

-based structure. Liquidity conditions for EFSF bonds in the secondary market are different from those of large sovereign bond issuers …, which affects bond pricing. This paper offers the first study of the term structure of EFSF bond yields and a decomposition …

observed government bond yields and survey-based expected average short rates. Our term premiums measured directly based on … rates, and uncover a number of important facts: 1) the bulk of the variation in medium- and long-term bond yields is driven … shocks playing the most prominent role; and 5) the secular decline of U.S. long-term bond yields over the past thirty years …

We present a discrete time model of expected bond returns (EBR). These are ex-ante expectations implied by the market … prices and the data set available when bond prices are quoted. The model can be used to estimate the rating-adjusted EBR, its … implement the model using corporate bond transaction data from the United States and a rating agency transition matrix to …

We document a strong positive cross-sectional relation between corporate bond yield spreads and bond return … volatilities. As corporate bond prices are generally attributable to both credit risk and illiquidity as discussed in Huang and …, our credit and illiquidity proxies can explain almost three quarters of the yield spread-bond volatility relation with …

This study analyses how liquidity risk affects bonds' yield spreads after controlling for credit risk, bond …