We develop a theoretical framework to explain firms' offshoring decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This model … sharp prediction of the prevalence of offshoring in a given industry: The propensity of firms to source intermediate inputs … particularly pronounced in industries with higher volatility. Combining industry-level data on the U.S. offshoring intensity with …

We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs … resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays "fat" tails, extreme segmentation …

degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that … make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk … to rationalize with incentive theories of bonus pay - but support an important risk sharing motive. In particular …

We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the …’s resilience (its ability of the recover rapidly from the shock). We find that the economic risk of epidemics is particularly high …

The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic … recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining … business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New Keynesian model featuring policy risk as well as uncertainty about …

We provide benchmarks to evaluate what is an optimal foreign debt and a maximal foreign debt (debt-max), when risk is … capital. We consider two sets of high- risk countries during the period 1978-99: a subset of 21 countries that defaulted on … default risk, and add another dimension to the literature of early warning signals of default/credit risk. …

We assess the impact of geopolitical risk and world uncertainty on the sovereign debt risk of 26 European Economies … European country's sovereign risk as measured by 5- and 10-year Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and bond returns. Moreover, this …

study uses a comprehensive approach to assess the impact of rising geopolitical risk on sovereign debt holdings for a panel … investor's portfolios. Our results allow us to conclude that while domestic economic agents display clearer risk aversion …, foreign economic agents have a more risk-taking behaviour in what concerns the financial investment on government debt. …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …