This paper documents a significantly stronger relationship between the slope of the yield curve and future excess bond …

The paper examines statistical and economic evidence of out-of-sample bond return predictability for a real … economic value for investors. Furthermore, we find that strong statistical and economic evidence of bond return predictability … levered investments in bonds can improve short-run bond return predictability …

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 …