Using regular variation to define heavy tailed distributions, we show that prominent downside risk measures produce … similar and consistent ranking of heavy tailed risk. Thus regardless of the particular risk measure being used, assets will be …

In this paper we compare overall as well as downside risk measures with respect to the criteria of first and second … order stochastic dominance. While the downside risk measures, with the exception of tail conditional expectation, are … consistent with first order stochastic dominance, overall risk measures are not, even if we restrict ourselves to two …

frequencies, the Consumption-CAPM is still rejected by the data and requires a very high level of Relative Risk Aversion(RRA) in … order to rationalize the stock market risk premium. This result holds for a variety of data sources and samples –including …-sectional dis-persion of consumption risk relative to the cross-sectional variation of average returns …

even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns … forward looking in nature and thus informative about the firms’ expectations about future cash-flows and risk …-adjusted discount rates. The model implies that the investment rate and the hiring rate predicts stock returns because these variables …

This paper proposes an approach to estimating the relation between risk (conditional variance) and expected returns in … proxy for the volatility in estimating the risk-return relation. Third, our estimation strategy involves the Generalized …