Stock-Bond Return Correlation, Bond Risk Premium Fundamentals, and Fiscal-Monetary Policy Regime

Erica X.N. Li, Tao Zha, Ji Zhang and Hao Zhou

No 2020-19, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: We incorporate regime switching between monetary and fiscal policies in a general equilibrium model to explain three stylized facts: (1) the positive stock-bond return correlation from 1971 to 2000 and the negative one after 2000, (2) the negative correlation between consumption and inflation from 1971 to 2000 and the positive one after 2000, and (3) the coexistence of positive bond risk premiums and the negative stock-bond return correlation. We show that two distinctive shocks—the technology and investment shocks—drive positive and negative stock-bond return correlations under two policy regimes, but positive bond risk premiums are driven by the same technology shock.

Keywords: stock-bond return correlation; consumption-inflation correlation; fiscal-monetary policy regime; bond risk premiums; technology shocks; investment shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E62 G12 G18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54
Date: 2020-10-02
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DOI: 10.29338/wp2020-19

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