model of time-varying labor income risk and study the implications of stochastic covariance between labor income and … dividends for the dynamics of the risk premiums on financial wealth and human capital …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility …The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …

In this paper we show that temperature is an aggregate risk factor that adversely affects economic growth. Our argument … temperature (i.e., temperature betas) contains sharp information about the cross-country risk premium; countries closer to the … Equator carry a positive temperature risk premium which decreases as one moves farther away from the Equator. The differences …

Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or … produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfolio-level and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is … particularly challenging because the demands of real-world risk management in financial institutions - in particular, real …

We study rollover risk and collateral value in a dynamic asset pricing model with endogenous debt financing by … borrowers face rollover risk if the belief dispersion between the borrowers and the pessimistic lenders widens after interim bad … presence of the rollover risk. We also highlight the role of interim trading which, by allowing creditors to sell seized …

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 …

idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that introduces, not only a precautionary motive for saving, but also a wedge between …

, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities---led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system …

markets that had no connection to housing. We find that changes in the "LIB-OIS" spread, a proxy for counterparty risk, was …

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