, exposing them to the risk of having to pay a large premium in case they are discovered to have a high probability of developing … a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating …

risk of firm default. …

We examine the asymmetric impact of shocks to macroeconomic expectations and their underlying dispersion on equity risk … for the price of risk. We also document that the survey expectations-augmented specification reduces pricing and premium …

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 …

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. …