risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk … contributions. In this paper, I explain how a transparency standard, in contrast to the current standard, would facilitate such risk … lack of standardization, they cannot be aggregated to assess the risk to the system. I highlight the important contribution …

manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products. We … demonstrate that self-insurance leads to high loadings, so that households offered a choice would favor the risk transfer scheme …

how it affects rational investors' demand for event risk exposures. We show that while parameter uncertainty does indeed … argue that parameter uncertainty does not appear to be a satisfactory explanation for high event-risk returns …

This paper studies the aggregate implications of imperfect risk-sharing implied by a class of New Keynesian models with … idiosyncratic income risk and incomplete financial markets. The models in this class can be equivalently represented as an economy … representative-agent economy to perform counterfactuals. We find that deviations from perfect risk-sharing were an important …

idiosyncratic income risk. These agents can trade a complete menu of contingent claims, but they cannot commit and shares in a Lucas … risk factor, in addition to aggregate consumption growth risk. This liquidity risk is created by binding solvency … constraints. The adjustment to the Breeden-Lucas stochastic discount factor induces substantial time variation in equity risk …

a key determinant of risk premia at all investment horizons. As the investment horizon increases, transitory risks …

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 …