This paper considers a world in which pension funds may default, the cost of the associated risk of default is not …

This paper presents a dynamic model of a public pension fund's choice of portfolio risk. Optimal portfolio allocations … public pension fund management, we find evidence that funds chose greater overall asset - liability portfolio risk following …, pension plans take more risk when they have greater representation by plan participants on their Boards of Trustees …

the regimes are small for moderate levels of risk aversion, and the intertemporal hedging demands induced by time …

influence of ex ante (preventive) and ex post (punitive) risk constraints on the gains to dynamic, as opposed to myopic …, decision making. We find that preventive measures, such as Value-at-Risk constraints, tend to decrease the gains to dynamic …

-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …

While the traditional view of financial innovation emphasizes the risk sharing role of new financial assets, belief …. This paper investigates the effect of financial innovation on portfolio risks in an economy when both the risk sharing and … the possibilities for risk sharing. My main result shows that financial innovation also always increases the speculative …

stocks and risk-free bonds over its lifecycle. We show that allowing for the wage indexation of social security benefits …

against non-diversifiable labor income risk. We then use our our theory to link openness to trade to the level of …In simple one-good international macro models, the presence of non-diversifiable labor income risk means that country …

. I find that changes in dividend risk have effects opposite to those in standard dynamic portfolio models without money …

an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What … matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk. Domestic equity is a good hedge with respect to long-run real … exchange rate risk even when bonds are traded. The higher is the degree of ambiguity aversion, the stronger is the home bias …