Motivated by individuals' emotional response to risk at different time horizons, we model an 'anxious' agent--one who … is more risk averse with respect to imminent risks than distant risks. Such preferences describe well-documented features … structure of risk premia, which are found empirically. Since such preferences can lead to dynamic inconsistencies with respect …

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …

We define CoVaR as the value at risk (VaR) of financial institutions conditional on other institutions being in … distress. The increase of CoVaR relative to VaR measures spillover risk among institutions. We estimate CoVaR using quantile … regressions and document significant CoVaR increases among financial institutions. We identify six risk factors that allow …