Value at Risk has become the standard measure of market risk employed by financial institutions for both internal and … methodologies developed so far give satisfactory solutions. Interpreting Value at Risk as a quantile of future portfolio values … assumptions invoked by existing methodologies (such as normality or i.i.d. returns). The Conditional Value at Risk or CAViaR model …

demonstrates the important role that risk plays in determining the mean and variability" of growth as well as the conditions under … and risk-taking we estimate" a reduced-form multinomial probit model of household portfolio choice using the method of …

a simple extension of the long-run risk model …

Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the … identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided …. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must vary over time to eliminate unobserved heterogeneity. Second, evaluating the …

power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price … estimates that are of the same sign and similar in magnitude. Positive exposure to capital share risk earns a positive risk …

Stocks with greater downside risk, which is measured by higher correlations conditional on downside moves of the market … of return on stocks with the greatest downside risk exceeds the average rate of return on stocks with the least downside … risk by 6.55% per annum. Downside risk is important for explaining the cross-section of expected returns. In particular of …

We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this … significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed. This highlights the interplay between risk and ambiguity attitudes as well …

traditional measure of risk, equity volatility. We show that each variable has a statistically significant effect on the timing of …, and ambiguity increasing the tendency for executives to exercise early in response to risk aversion. Regression estimates …

This paper studies the ability of long-run risk models to explain out-of-sample asset returns during 1931-2009. The … long-run risk models perform relatively well on the momentum effect. A cointegrated version of the model outperforms the … 1990s. When we restrict the risk premiums to identify structural parameters, this results in larger average pricing errors …

static tradeoff theory model in which agents are both risk averse and ambiguity averse. The model confirms the usual idea … that increased risk--the uncertainty over known possible outcomes--leads firms to use less leverage. Conversely, greater …