income risk, in the form of both uninsurable shocks and a common aggregate component, small differences in the correlation …

consider human capital risk, the international diversification puzzle is worse than we think, is based on an econometric …: considering the human capital risk does not unequivocally worsen the puzzle and in some cases helps explaining it. …

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 …