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Flight-to-safety and the risk-return trade-off : European evidence

Aslanidis, Nektarios ; Christiansen, Charlotte LU and Savva, Christos S. (2020) In Finance Research Letters 35.
Abstract

This paper investigates flight-to-safety from stocks to bonds in six European markets. We use quantile regressions to identify flight-to-safety episodes. The conditional risk-return trade-off on the stock markets is negative. Flight-to-safety episodes strengthen the negative trade-off. The effects of flight-to-safety episodes on the trade-off are qualitatively similar for own country flight-to-safety episodes, for flight from own country stock market to the US bond market, and for US flight-to-safety episodes. The strength of the trade-off is strongest for US flight-to-safety episodes. Flight-from-safety has the opposite effect on the trade-off.

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Bond market, European markets, Flight-to-safety, Risk-return trade-off, Stock market
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Finance Research Letters
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35
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101294
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Elsevier
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1544-6123
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10.1016/j.frl.2019.09.009
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  title        = {{Flight-to-safety and the risk-return trade-off : European evidence}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.frl.2019.09.009}},
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