Volatility in international sovereign bond markets: The role of government policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

A Zaremba, R Kizys, DY Aharon - Finance Research Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective government policies may reduce uncertainty in sovereign bond markets. Can policy
responses help to curb bond market volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer …

Factor investing in the corporate bond market

P Houweling, J Van Zundert - Financial Analysts Journal, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We offer empirical evidence that size, low-risk, value, and momentum factor portfolios
generate economically meaningful and statistically significant alphas in the corporate bond …

Common factors in corporate bond returns

R Israel, D Palhares, SA Richardson - Forthcoming in the Journal …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
We find that four well-known characteristics (carry, defensive, momentum and value) explain
a significant portion of the cross-sectional variation in corporate bond excess returns. These …

The volatility effect revisited

D Blitz, P Van Vliet, G Baltussen - The Journal of Portfolio …, 2019 - jpm.pm-research.com
High-risk stocks do not have higher returns than low-risk stocks in all major stock markets.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of this low-risk effect, from the earliest asset …

Time-frequency information transmission among financial markets: evidence from implied volatility

MA Naeem, F Qureshi, S Farid, AK Tiwari… - Annals of Operations …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we utilize the Chicago Board Option Exchange (CBOE) implied volatility
indices to estimate the time-frequency information transmission among financial markets …

[HTML][HTML] What we know about the low-risk anomaly: a literature review

J Traut - Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2023 - Springer
It is well documented that less risky assets tend to outperform their riskier counterparts
across asset classes. This paper provides a structured summary of the current state of …

[PDF][PDF] Factor investing in credit

H Henke, H Kaufmann, P Messow… - The Journal of Index …, 2020 - efmaefm.org
This paper investigates the application of factor investing in corporate bonds. Our results
show that proficiency in the drivers of risk and return, the factors, should be used for bottom …

151 Trading Strategies

Z Kakushadze, JA Serur - Z. Kakushadze and JA Serur, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
We provide detailed descriptions, including over 550 mathematical formulas, for over 150
trading strategies across a host of asset classes (and trading styles). This includes stocks …

The cross section of international government bond returns

A Zaremba, A Czapkiewicz - Economic Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Volatility risk, credit risk, value effect, and momentum are major return drivers in the fixed-
income universe. This study offers a four-factor pricing model for international government …

Seasonality in government bond returns and factor premia

A Zaremba, T Schabek - Research in International Business and Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
The study investigated both the January effect and the “sell-in-May-and-go-away” anomaly
in government bond returns. It also tested whether the two seasonal patterns impact the …