increasing term structure for the risk premium. It also implies that, under the assumption that the cumulants of the distribution … investment is larger than half of relative risk aversion. Another important consequence of parametric uncertainty is that the … risk premium is not proportional to the beta of the investment. We apply these general results to the case of an uncertain …

asymmetric risk premia over the business cycle. These (empirical) key features become relevant, and asset market implications …-form expressions for the risk premium in production economies. In contrast to endowment economies, the curvature of the policy … functions affects the risk premium through controlling the individual’s effective risk aversion. …

In this paper, we construct alternative theoretical models for exchange rates by introducing additional risk factors …, based on the volatility of macroeconomic fundamentals. The modified flexible-price monetary model is used to characterize … macroeconomic sources of FOREX risk may be a missing factor in the exchange rate study. …

typically shares in the latter gains via the collection of tax revenues. Hence to the extent the risk discount rate should … reflect the co-variability between the return from public investment and that of the market, we are led to measuring the risk …, 1950-2000, and show that the social risk premium is relatively small vis-à-vis the market. Consequently, the use of the …

response analysis. Second, we examine the announcements effects on market volatility in a more detailed fashion by … adequately analyze both conditional mean and volatility effects. …

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a … panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a … result, we show that increased commodity price volatility leads to a statistically significant and quantitatively large …

This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in … evidence does not actually attempt to measure the volatility of prices of individual goods or commodities. The literature tends … to focus on trends in the evolution and volatility of ratios of price indexes composed of multiple commodities and …

experienced relatively low and non inclusive economic growth as well as high levels of macroeconomic volatility. Important …