We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …

construction of reliablesemi-parametric estimates of the risk associated with extreme pricemovements. Our approach is based on semi …

Empirical measures of world consumption growth risk have failed to rationalize the cross-section of country equity … returns. We propose a new factor, termed "the global consumption factor", to explain the patterns in risk premiums on … from 47 developed and emerging market countries over a four-decade period. Our risk factor reflects changes in the cross …

country selection is incorporated into the strategies, but the risk of thestrategies increases proportionally. Second, we test …. We find no evidence of higher market risk or lower liquidity ofthe strategies. Instead, based on the developments of …