In absence of insurance contracts to share risk, public information is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it … empowers self-insurance as agents better react to shocks, reducing risk. On the other hand, it weakens market-insurance as … common knowledge of shocks restricts trading risk. We embody these two faces of information in a single general …

Ranguelova that examined the implication of portfolio risk after the transition to an investment-based system has been completed … system that is completely investment-based. We model intergenerational guarantees and assess the risk of such guarantees to … combinations of taxes and saving deposits in the later years. The extra risk to retirees and/or taxpayers is relatively small …

. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … currency risk factors. Second, when combining the currency factors with a group of economic factors, we measure the incremental … explanatory power over and above a model that includes economic risk factors …

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 …

We propose a comprehensive measure of systematic risk for corporate bonds as a nonlinear function of robust risk … factors and find a significantly positive link between systematic risk and the time-series and cross-section of future bond … returns. We also find a positive but insignificant relation between idiosyncratic risk and future bond returns, suggesting …