I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation in weather extensively explored by … reduced-form weather regressions in more general environments. Applying this new method, I find that an additional 2°C of …

both short-run weather and long-run climate. Exploiting the longitudinal structure of the NLSY79 and random fluctuations in … weather across interviews, we identify the effect of temperature in models with child-specific fixed effects. We find that … from short run weather shocks …

The paper tests three hypotheses concerning foreign equity investment in the presence of liquidity risk. First, the FDI …-to-FPI price differential is negatively related to liquidity risk (the "Price Discount Hypothesis"). The idea is that market …

We propose several econometric measures of systemic risk to capture the interconnectedness among the monthly returns of … find that all four sectors have become highly interrelated over the past decade, increasing the level of systemic risk in … of market dislocation, and systemic risk arises from a complex and dynamic network of relationships among hedge funds …

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 …

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 …

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

uncertainty is time-varying, and (2) countries have heterogeneous exposures to a world aggregate shock. We embed these features in …