obtained in a complete information setting, where coordination is easy, to those obtained in a setting with strategic risk … deterrent effect under complete information, this does not hold anymore under strategic risk. Rather, we find that increases in … weapon stocks can have a non-monotonic effect on the sustainability of peace. We also show that under strategic risk …

-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 …

International risk-sharing has far-reaching implications both for economic policy and for basic research in economics …. When countries do not share risk, individuals in those countries experience fluctuations in their consumption levels that … are undesirable and possibly unnecessary. This paper extends and refines the study of international risk-sharing in two …

enough to approximate Kahnenman and Tversky's prospect theory and that for certain parametric values will yield the expected …

and conditional heteroskedasticity of exchange rates and on the behavior of foreign exchange risk premiums. The model …

matching environment. Among other results, we show how risk and search cost are associated with the propensity to start small …

While the traditional view of financial innovation emphasizes the risk sharing role of new financial assets, belief …. This paper investigates the effect of financial innovation on portfolio risks in an economy when both the risk sharing and … the possibilities for risk sharing. My main result shows that financial innovation also always increases the speculative …