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 …

government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be …&D investors to better share the pipeline risk associated with FDA approval with broader capital markets. Using historical FDA … from offering them. Using various unique data sources, we find that FDA approval risk has a low correlation across drug …

Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate … execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between … risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the same risk preferences as in ordinary investment. The paper develops …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …

the guarantee-extending parties to "walk away". I derive the optimal risk management rule in such a framework and show … that it allows high volatility choices, while net worth is high. However, risk limits tighten abruptly when the firm's net … risk management rules, and can account for phenomena such as "flight to quality" …

;the user cost of fundsquot;) for the risk inherent in that corresponding financial transaction. Otherwise, nominal financial … output will be overstated, and the bias can be large (about 25 percent). Second, we argue that, according to finance theory …, the required risk correction can be implemented practically at the level of industries (e.g., the banking sector as a …

We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an …

-contribution (DC) plans that typically contain a minimum benefit guarantee (DC-MB). Risk management techniques must be used to control … the Samp;P500. Calculations show that the true risk-adjusted value of unfunded guarantees in a realistic DC-MB plan equals … 'basis risk' if they chose a non-standard portfolio. However, for large conversions from DB to DC-MB plans, in which there is …

these rejections are in part a consequence of the presence of omitted risk factors which are associated with nonzero risk … model should partially reflect exposure to these omitted sources of systematic risk and,hence, should help explain expected … residual risk effect in the previous literature:(1) nonlinearity of the residual risk effect and (2) the inadequacy of the …