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. …

of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research … termination via prepayment or default affects optimal risk-sharing. The broad conclusion of the analysis is that potential … mortgage termination makes higher risk exposure for borrowers optimal. …

estimation of risk premia but also in tests of market efficiency, where λk and μk are respectively the risk premium and the mean … of the kth risk factor. It proposes a two-step estimator of ∅k with Shanken type bias-correction, and derives its … U.S. securities with risk factors selected from a large number of potential risk factors according to their strength. …

. The pooling and tranching of credit assets relaxes both the funding and the risk constraints financial entities face … allowing them to increase balance sheet holdings. This increase in asset demand depresses the compensation for undertaking risk … in the economy, confirming our empirical results. Crucially, we show that declines in the compensation for risk taking in …

macroeconomic variables. However, the presence of time-varying risk premia requires an adjustment of market prices to obtain the … estimating risk premia and highlights the proliferation of risk pricing factors that result in a wide range of different asset …-price-based expectation measures. It then describes a key methodological innovation to evaluate the empirical plausibility of risk premium …

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 …

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. …

Restrictions on the risk-pricing in dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) can unleash the power of no-arbitrage by … econometric framework for estimation of affine Gaussian DTSMs under restrictions on risk prices, which addresses the issues of a … the US Treasury yield curve. The data strongly favor tight restrictions on risk pricing: only level risk is priced, and …

-agents model with two main ingredients: i) rare disasters; ii) heterogeneous beliefs. The model captures time-varying risk premia …