expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

: Economic risk is high relative to political risk, markets are sufficiently incomplete, and there exists a rent-less policy …

In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions … addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems from heterogeneous risk tolerance: as a recessionary shock hits the … economy and brings down asset prices, risk-tolerant agents' wealth share declines and their leverage rises endogenously. This …

explicitly absorb a larger share of the systemic risk. The options for doing this range from surplus countries rebalancing their … securitization industry while removing the systemic risk from the banks' balance sheets. Such public-private solutions could be …