towards risk. We find that the uncertainty associated with anthropogenic climate change imply carbon taxes much higher than …There is great uncertainty about the impact of anthropogenic carbon on future economic wellbeing. We use DSICE, a DSGE … implied by deterministic models. This analysis indicates that the absence of uncertainty in DICE2007 and similar models may …

uncertainty, defined as the common volatility in the unforecastable component of a large number of economic indicators. Our … estimates display significant independent variations from popular uncertainty proxies, suggesting that much of the variation in … the proxies is not driven by uncertainty. Quantitatively important uncertainty episodes appear far more infrequently than …

expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

against non-diversifiable labor income risk. We then use our our theory to link openness to trade to the level of …In simple one-good international macro models, the presence of non-diversifiable labor income risk means that country …

. I find that changes in dividend risk have effects opposite to those in standard dynamic portfolio models without money … capture information about the uncertainty in the economy more accurately than any other prices in the asset markets …

an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What … matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk. Domestic equity is a good hedge with respect to long-run real … exchange rate risk even when bonds are traded. The higher is the degree of ambiguity aversion, the stronger is the home bias …

techniques from the theory of multiple risk-bearing. Applying this analysis, the effect of labor income taxes on the demand for …The effect of uninsured labor income risk on the joint saving/portfolio composition decision is analyzed using new …

This paper considers a world in which pension funds may default, the cost of the associated risk of default is not …