We investigate the relation between global foreign exchange (FX) volatility risk and the cross-section of excess … FX volatility and thus deliver low returns in times of unexpected high volatility, when low interest rate currencies … provide a hedge by yielding positive returns. Our proxy for global FX volatility risk captures more than 90% of the cross …

resulting volatility can induce risk-averse transactors who face transaction costs to desert these markets altogether. Thus … thinness and the consequent price volatility may become joint self-perpetuating features of an equity market, whatever the … volatility of asset fundamentals. If, however, appropriate incentive schemes are adopted to encourage entry of additional …

overestimate the likelihood of small probability events, as in prospect theory. …

a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market … actual downgrade and reversing sharply thereafter. We show that a measure of liquidity risk faced by corporate bond market … portion of this excess co-movement. Additional robustness checks suggest that this relationship between the liquidity risk …

rationed when they attempt to borrow in order to meet liquidity shocks. The rationed firms can optimally pledge cash as …-in-the-market pricing and depends on the entire distribution of liquidity shocks in the economy. As moral hazard intensity varies … market and funding liquidity and deep discounts observed in prices during crises that follow good times. …

-effects multinomial panel models are estimated using simulation-based techniques. Explanatory variables include OCA fundamentals …

migration movements, and individual labour mobility. First, qualitative predictions are derived using the theory of production …