In this paper, we examine how learning about disaster risk affects asset pricing in an endowment economy. We extend the … generates time variation in the risk premium through Bayesian updating of agents' beliefs regarding the likelihood and severity …

portfolio size and degree of risk aversion of potential investors, the ability to borrow, and the hedging opportunities provided …

"correlation breakdown." As a result, risk managers worry that their hedges will be useless when they are most needed, namely …. We make this point analytically, by way of several numerical examples, and via an empirical illustration. ; But, risk …

Risk management information systems are designed to overcome the problem of aggregating data across diverse trading … units. The design of an information system depends on the risk measurement methodology that a firm chooses. Inherent in the … design of both a risk management information system and a risk measurement methodology is a tradeoff between the accuracy of …

as the basis for estimates of the appropriate absolute level of economic capital allocations for portfolio credit risk …