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Over the last twenty years, the consensus view of systemic risk in the financial system that emerged in response to the … facing financial institutions. The dramatic rise of modern risk management has changed how the risks of financial … institutions are measured and how these institutions are managed. However, modern risk management is not without weaknesses that …
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rates, and risk shift over time in predictable ways. Furthermore, these shifts tend to persist over long periods of time. In …, and we explore its implications for asset allocation. Changes in investment opportunities can alter the risk …-return tradeoff of bonds, stocks, and cash across investment horizons, thus creating a ``term structure of the risk-return tradeoff …
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Can governments roll their debt over forever in dynamically efficient economies, and thus avoid the need to raise taxes? While the answer is a clear no under certainty, it depends, under uncertainty, on whether public debt provides intergenerational insurance. When it does not, rollover is not...
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The paper illustrates how one may assess our comprehensive uncertainty about the various relations in the entire chain from human activity to climate change. Using a modified version of the RICE model of the global economy and climate, we perform Monte Carlo simulations, where full sets of...
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countries. Yet these liabilities are rarely measured, let alone properly adjusted for their risk. This paper shows, by example …, how modern asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts taking into account their risk properties. The example …
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Wage-hedonics is used to recover the value of a statistical life by exploiting the fact that workers choosing riskier occupations will be compensated with a higher wage. However, Roy (1951) suggests that observed wage distributions will be distorted if individuals select into jobs according to...
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We study the effect of releasing public information about productivity or monetary shocks when agents learn from nominal prices. While public releases have the benefit of providing new information, they can have the cost of reducing the informational efficiency of the price system. We show that,...
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With the rapid increase in LDC indebtedness in the recent decade, the issues of creditworthiness and country risk have … presence of default risk. The theoretical model suggests the possibility of a prisoners' dilemma in the loan market, in which a …
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appropriate measure of an asset's risk is the covariance of the asset's return with the market return. The consumption CAPM, on … the other hand, implies that a better measure of risk is the covariance with aggregate consumption growth. We examine a …
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perhaps latent) consequence of integration: the alteration of the risk-bearing relationships between employees, employers and …
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