The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper … explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … default risk of firms which operate in these environments. The predictions are in accord with readily available data …

than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC estimation procedure is applied to a portfolio of daily returns on …-DCC specification. The t-DCC model also passes a number of VaR diagnostic tests over an evaluation sample. The estimation results …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach – termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …

exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether overconfident people underestimate the probability of incurring an avalanche … under different levels of avalanche risk, we measured individual cognitive traits and then used a random effect logit model … overestimate their knowledge are also more likely to take the risk associated with a ski trip exposed to avalanche danger. This …

Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets …