aid to firms at risk of bankruptcy. While this policy prevents more bankruptcies and has lower fiscal cost, it only enjoys …

household's attitudes toward risk, as shown in Swanson (2012). In this paper, I analyze how frictional labor markets affect that … analysis. Household risk aversion (as measured by willingness to pay to avoid a wealth shock) is higher: 1) in countries with … in Europe are large enough to play a substantial contributing role to risk aversion in those countries. Nevertheless …

shows that small to medium-sized increases in uncertainty or risk aversion are enough to recommend an expansion of the …

In this paper, we study the interplay between sovereign risk and global financial risk. We show that a substantial … portion of the comovement among sovereign spreads is accounted for by changes in global financial risk. We construct bond … measure global financial risk. Through panel regressions and local projection analysis, we find that an increase in global …

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been … adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and … pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …