traditional risk factors. I then test the model predictions and find that empirical proxies for investors’ uncertainty about …Volatility risk premia compensate agents for holding assets whose payoffs correlate with times of high return variation …. This paper takes a structural approach to explain the cross-section of volatility risk premia of stocks using a Lucas …

question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …

The objective of this paper is to propose a model to assess risk for banks. Its main innovation is to incorporate … endogenous interaction between banks, recognising that the actual risk to which an individual bank is exposed also depends on its … data and therefore can be implemented as a risk assessment tool for financial regulators and central banks. We address the …

This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …