Macroeconomic and Financial Determinants of the Volatility of Corporate Bond Returns

This paper analyzes the relationship between the volatility of corporate bond returns and standard financial and macroeconomic indicators reflecting the state of the economy. We employ the GARCHMIDAS multiplicative two-component model of volatility that distinguishes the short-term dynamics from the...

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Autores: Nieto, Belén, Novales Cinca, Alfonso Santiago, Rubio, Gonzalo
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/41599
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41599
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:G12
C22
E44
Corporate bonds
Volatility
Low-frequency component
High-frequency component
Macroeconomic indicators
Financial indicators.
Econometría (Economía)
Finanzas
Macroeconomía
5302 Econometría
5307.14 Teoría Macroeconómica
Descrição
Resumo:This paper analyzes the relationship between the volatility of corporate bond returns and standard financial and macroeconomic indicators reflecting the state of the economy. We employ the GARCHMIDAS multiplicative two-component model of volatility that distinguishes the short-term dynamics from the long-run component of volatility. Both the in-sample and out-of-sample analysis show that recognizing the existence of a stochastic low-frequency component captured by macroeconomic and financial indicators may improve the fit of the model to actual bond return data, relative to the constant long-run component embedded in a typical GARCH model.