risk-shifting channel is open for these newly eligible securities, banks prefer to pledge them and pay another premium, the … Risk-Shifting premium. With the full fixed-income trading book of 26 German banks, I identify each trade of each bank and … show how funding liquidity impacts premia payment. I quantify the Fire Buy premium to be 15.6 bps; and the Risk …

-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors and corporate bond spreads. First, we apply Bayesian model averaging … to a battery of candidate variables for determining meaningful systematic risk factors. Second, Markov switching … market conditions, on the other. Our evidence for market indices of euro-denominated bonds suggests that systematic risk …

men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …

vulnerability. This study examines the economic idea of the beta dispersion and its application as a market return predictor. Based …

choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …

Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …