Stock and bond prices move together with greater country-specific risk. Bonds hedge global growth expectation risk with low country-specific risk, resulting in a negative stockbond correlation. However, as country-specific risk increases, bonds do not effectively hedge stocks because higher local growth expectation tends to lower inflation, leading to higher stock and bond prices. Consequently, countries with greater country-specific risk exhibit a higher stock-bond correlation. Investments in countries with a positive stockbond relationship outperform those with a negative relationship by 7–11%. The superior performance is not driven by investments in a fixed set of countries.
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ABSTRACT I. Introduction II. The model III. The model 1. Consumption and inflation dynamics 2. Bond yields and currency returns 3. Parameter assumptions 4. SB correlation/beta and country-specific volatility 5. Drivers of stock-bond return dynamics IV. Data V. Determinants of stock-bond joint dynamics 1. The relationship between growth and inflation 2. Stock and bond market response to growth and inflation shocks 3. Country-specific volatility and the SB correlation VI. The cross-section of country stock returns 1. Main empirical result 2. Default risk 3. Cross-sectional regressions VII. Globalization and SB correlation VIII. Conclusion References Figure Table A. Data appendix B. Technical appendix C. Additional cross-sectional regressions