, we show that agents economic hedging portfolios can be obtained by an intuitively appealing, risk aversion …-weighted approximate replication of the economic risk variables using the investment opportunity set, as opposed to the unweighted hedging … demand obtained in the traditional mean-variance framework.We find that agents across a broad range of levels of risk …

positive relationship between risk taking and retirement fl exibility is weakened - and under some conditions even turned … around - if not only capital-market risks but also productivity risks are considered. Productivity risk in combination with a … labour income, reducing the willingness of consumers to bear risk. Moreover, it turns out that general-equilibrium effects …

In this paper we propose a new rule to allocate risk capital to portfolios or divisions within a firm. Specifically, we … of portfolios is defined as the expected loss of that set of portfolios in excess of the amount of risk capital allocated …