the near future. The research finds no evidence of large differences in the patterns of risk sharing for the 19 OECD …

This paper investigates the interdependence between the risk-pooling activity of the financial sector and: output …, consumption, risk-free rate, and Sharpe ratio in a dynamic general equilibrium model of a productive economy. Due to their … to mitigate their risk through a financial sector. The financial sector pools risky claims issued by different firms …

times. The paper analyzes how these government programs influence credit allocation, indebtedness, and risk at both the … firms. The uptake of the employment program is not associated with risk, as firms internalize the opportunity cost of … expansion of the credit program by supporting firms and enabling banks to screen firms better. Macroeconomic risk of the credit …

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 …

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez and Martín Uribe (2011) find that risk … rate risk shock increases by 63 percent and the contribution of interest rate risk shocks to business cycle volatility more … than doubles. Hence, risk matters more in the recalibrated model. However, the recalibrated model does worse in capturing …

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. …

the period 1972:1-2014:12 to forecasts our tail risk indicators with each model in pseudo-real time. Our key finding is …

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

) If the relative measure of risk aversion is less (more) than 1 then more information raises (reduces) income inequality …. (b) When a risk sharing market is available better information results in higher inequality regardsless of the measure … risk aversion. …

We argue that since there are several impediments to international risk sharing, the welfare gains from full … international risk sharing, which have been the object of analysis in the previous literature, are not suggestive. Instead, we study … the gains from feasible risk sharing and find that they are considerable (0:5% increase inpermanent consumption). Marginal …