-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …

, arises because these models load all uncertainty onto the supply side of the economy. We propose a simple theory of asset … pricing in which demand shocks play a central role. These shocks give rise to valuation risk that allows the model to account …

the firm's exposure to IST shocks and risk premia. Our calibrated model replicates: i) the predictability of returns by … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend …

This paper provides a theory-based empirical framework for understanding the risk and return on productive capital … assets and their allocation across activities in an economy characterized by idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and thin formal … extensive networks, taking advantage of panel data: income, assets, consumption, gifts, and loans. We decompose risk and …

and to examine two potential explanations of the asymmetry: leverage effects and time-varying risk premiums. Our empirical …

asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically grounded nominal frictions: fixed nominal …

an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What … matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk. Domestic equity is a good hedge with respect to long-run real … exchange rate risk even when bonds are traded. The higher is the degree of ambiguity aversion, the stronger is the home bias …

This essay reviews the family of models that seek to provide aggregate risk based explanations for the empirically …, model uncertainty and the small probability of enormous losses are detailed. We impose the additional requirements that …

dividend yield is typically viewed as a reflection of either changing risk, related to the business cycle, or irrational … risk as well as expected return, we develop Bayesian methods to examine the interaction between the data and an investor … and a riskless asset. In general, however, the simple risk/return model of Merton (1980) explains very little of the yield …