We develop a novel argument why better public information can help countries to insure against idiosyncratic risk … and engage in risk-sharing contracts with limited enforceability. Better public information has two opposite effects …. First, it has a detrimental effect on risk sharing by limiting risk-sharing possibilities as emphasized by Hirshleifer (1971 …

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …

the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk … assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited … liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly capitalized banks may limit risk to avoid breaching the minimal capital ratio …

I analyze welfare properties of mutual funds in the Diamond-Dybvig model with two sources of aggregate risk …: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social …

Under the new Capital Accord, banks choose between two different types of risk management systems, the standard or the … internal rating based approach. The paper considers how a bank's preference for a risk management system is affected by the … presence of supervision by bank regulators. The model uses a principal-agent setting between a bank's owner and its risk …

of systemic risk and by developing a modeling mechanism through which capital buffers can be allocated efficiently across … systemic banks. First, a Distance-to-Default type measure relates a bank's default risk to its capital requirements. Second, a … the underlying banks. Third, risk minimization and equalization approaches are adopted to allocate the capital …

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity … firms earn lower profits. Overall, the results suggest that being aware and dealing cautiously with risk leads to higher …