Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of different maturities …. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate environment by estimating a market stochastic discount … literature. We provide evidence that non-linearities arise from hedging strategies of investors exposed to interest rate risk …

explores how much of these large movements reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion (ii) country-specific risks, directly … in the crisis, the surge in global risk aversion was a significant factor influencing sovereign spreads, while recently … Spain, as the emphasis has shifted towards short-term refinancing risk and long-term fiscal sustainability. The paper …

significant impact on market-implied sovereign default risk. This adverse effect appears to be more pronounced in advanced …

We investigate how corporate stock returns respond to geopolitical risk in the case of South Korea, which has … risk from North Korea (the GPRNK index) is constructed using automated keyword searches in South Korean media. The GPRNK … index, designed to capture both upside and downside risk, corroborates that geopolitical risk sharply increases with the …