which financial markets were trying to allocate risk between heterogeneous agents when productive investment opportunities … are scarce. We begin by showing how heterogeneity in terms of risk tolerance can cause financial markets to propagate …

dominate, in that public releases increase uncertainty about fundamentals. In some cases, public releases can create or …

This paper proposes a simple index of the welfare significance of uncertainty in the public goods resulting as policy … function of the coefficient of relative risk aversion, the variance in the measure of environmental service associated with …

information concerning product risk, and mandatory and voluntary disclosure rules are equivalent …

Insurance induces a well-known tradeoff between the welfare gains from risk protection and the welfare losses from … the tradeoff simultaneously, allowing for a relationship between moral hazard and risk protection. An important feature of …, and stoplosses that alter moral hazard as well as risk protection relative to no insurance. I illustrate the properties of …

International consumption risk sharing studies have largely ignored their models' counterfactual implications for asset … returns although these returns incorporate direct market measures of risk. In this paper, we modify a canonical risk … variance of equity returns and the risk-free rate requires persistent consumption risk, leading to three main findings: (1 …

expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …

, survival ambiguity is welfare improving because it allows competitive insurance companies to pool risk across survival types …