In this book, insight into characteristics of international government bond markets is provided by identifying the relative effects of domestic and global factors in the determination of yields and by extracting volatility linkages on both a regional and a global scale. For the East European region, domestic factors are found to be much more important in explaining bond yields whereas for the Asian and EU regions, both sets of factors are important in explaining the changes in yields. Volatility transmission is less pronounced at a cross-regional level than at a within region level, an...