even if the risk-free asset return is correlated with other risky assets' returns. However, equivalence fails to hold on an … achieved only if a huge amount of information is available, making its implementation a hard task. -- capital gains ; risk …

turns out to decrease ex-ante individual welfare, unless restrictions are assumed on retirement behavior. Overall, risk … shown to yield a slight ex-ante welfare improvement from a purely risk-insurance perspective. This relative gain stems from … risk diversification across working-life wages in computing benefits. -- social security reforms ; uncertainty ; risk …

making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …

between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by …

We examine asset prices in a representative-agent model of general equilibrium. Assuming only that individuals are risk … averse, we determine conditions on the changes in asset risk that are both necessary and sufficient for the asset price to … incomplete in the sense of containing an uninsurable background risk, such as a risk on labor income. We extend our model to show …

boom yields consistently positive excess returns. This excess return compensates for the risk of high negative returns in … countries on risk aversion, and low (high) risk aversion currencies depreciate (appreciate) in times of global turmoil. …

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in … corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays … intuitive relations with quantitative measures of cybersecurity risk disclosure language, exhibits a positive trend over time …