We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …

regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …

Although risk aversion has been used in economic models for over 275 years, the past few decades have shown how higher … order risk attitudes are also quite important. A behavioral approach to defining such risk attitudes was developed by … Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger (2006), based upon simple lottery preference. This article show how the mathematics of lattice theory …

In accordance with Basel Capital Accords, the Capital Requirements (CR) for market risk exposure of banks is a … nonlinear function of Value-at-Risk (VaR). Importantly, the CR is calculated based on a bank’s actual portfolio, i.e. the …

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

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 …

can undertake an active portfolio management strategy by investing in both risk-free and risky assets. Using a two … in each period. -- Consumption and labor taxation ; equivalence ; risk …

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 …