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 …

with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …-shaped relationship between welfare and risk, indicating a tradeoff relationship between risk-pooling and growth in the determination of …

Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an …

risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany … weekly). The empirical findings in most cases imply that the market risk premium is a highly persistent variable which can be …

as predictors. Third, we pool the forecasts in clusters to hedge against model risk and to evaluate the usefulness of …, and reducing tail risk. Using the same approach for return forecasts, however, does not lead to a consistent …