Predictability of emerging market local currency bond risk premia
Type :
Article
Publication Status :
published
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Abstract
This article investigates the source of predictability of emerging market (EM) local currency bond risk premia by using a dynamic factor approach based on a large panel of economic and financial time series. We find strong predictable variation in EM local currency excess bond returns that is associated with macroeconomic activity. We provide evidence that the main predictor variables are the factors based on real economic activity that are highly correlated with measures of industrial and manufacturing production; however, factors based on global financial factors also contain information about the future local currency bond returns. The predictive power of the extracted factors is both statistically significant and economically important. Our research has important implications for policymakers and pension fund managers.
Source :
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
Date :
2015
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/3894http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1540496X.2015.1011555
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