Investors rely on the stock-bond correlation for a variety of tasks, such as forming optimal portfolios, designing … hedging strategies, and assessing risk. Most investors estimate the stock-bond correlation simply by extrapolating the … historical correlation of monthly returns and assume that this correlation best characterizes the correlation of future, annual …

This paper uses a frequency domain approach to gain insight into the correlation between survey indicators and year … of the correlation between survey indicators and year-on-year GDP growth at the different frequencies to explain their … overall correlation. We show that survey indicators, similar to year-on-year GDP growth, do not perfectly reflect business …