Understanding the Excess Bond Premium
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| author | Benson, Kevin Cheng, Ing-Haw Hull, John Martineau, Charles Nozawa, Yoshio Strela, Vasily Wu, Yuntao Yuan, Jun |
| author_facet | Benson, Kevin Cheng, Ing-Haw Hull, John Martineau, Charles Nozawa, Yoshio Strela, Vasily Wu, Yuntao Yuan, Jun |
| contents | We study the drivers of the Gilchrist and Zakrajšek (2012) excess bond premium (EBP) through the lens of the news. The monthly attention the news pays to 180 topics (Bybee et al., 2024) captures up to 80% of the variation in the EBP, and this component of variation forecasts macroeconomic movements. Greater news attention to financial intermediaries and crises tends to drive up the EBP and portend macroeconomic downturns, while greater news attention to politics and science tends to drive down the EBP. Attention-based estimates of EBP largely drive out the forecast power of direct sentiment measures for macroeconomic fluctuations and predict the business cycle going back to the early 1900's. Overall, we attribute predictive variation about the EBP for macroeconomic movements to variation in news attention to financial intermediaries, crises, and politics. |
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| spellingShingle | Understanding the Excess Bond Premium Benson, Kevin Cheng, Ing-Haw Hull, John Martineau, Charles Nozawa, Yoshio Strela, Vasily Wu, Yuntao Yuan, Jun General Finance General Economics Economics We study the drivers of the Gilchrist and Zakrajšek (2012) excess bond premium (EBP) through the lens of the news. The monthly attention the news pays to 180 topics (Bybee et al., 2024) captures up to 80% of the variation in the EBP, and this component of variation forecasts macroeconomic movements. Greater news attention to financial intermediaries and crises tends to drive up the EBP and portend macroeconomic downturns, while greater news attention to politics and science tends to drive down the EBP. Attention-based estimates of EBP largely drive out the forecast power of direct sentiment measures for macroeconomic fluctuations and predict the business cycle going back to the early 1900's. Overall, we attribute predictive variation about the EBP for macroeconomic movements to variation in news attention to financial intermediaries, crises, and politics. |
| title | Understanding the Excess Bond Premium |
| topic | General Finance General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04063 |