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

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 paper analyzes the joint dynamic processes of macroeconomic and monetary variables and bond yields in China. We … changes in macroeconomic and monetary variables. These results differ from an earlier study on bond yields by Ang and Piazzesi …

Using data on government bond yields in Germany and the United States, we show that overseas unspanned factors … for subsequent domestic bond returns. This result is remarkably robust, holding for different sample periods, as well as … term structure models that omit information about foreign bond yields are therefore likely to be misspecified …

contributory factor to this conundrum was the contemporaneous increase in US bond demand. Using ARDL-based models, which … accommodate structural breaks, this paper estimates the impact of demand on US bond yields in the conundrum period. This impact is … shown to have been everywhere significantly negative. The fact that our model fully explains the bond yield conundrum gives …

bonds with higher collateral haircuts. The importance of collateral haircuts on bond yields remains robust after controlling …

TRACE bond returns are meaningfully different from ICE bond return data used by banks, asset managers, and hedge funds …

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 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 …