Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical … VAR values that are adjusted for risk aversion, time preferences, and other variations in economic valuation. In the … context of a representative agent equilibrium model, we construct an estimator of the risk-aversion coefficient that is …

bonds, greater risk-bearing capacity in the U.S. than the rest of the world, and nominal rigidities. A flight to safety … generates a dollar appreciation and decline in global output. Dollar bonds thus command a negative risk premium and the U ….S. holds a levered portfolio of capital financed in dollars. We quantify the effects of safety shocks and heterogeneity in risk …

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 …

can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of … the seriousness of this type of risk in the current United States situation are presented. Sufficient conditions on the … structure of the economy for such intergenerational risk pooling to be mutually beneficial to all members of society are derived …

banks to pursue safer investments in low-risk government securities …

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

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in … corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays … intuitive relations with quantitative measures of cybersecurity risk disclosure language, exhibits a positive trend over time …

which financial markets were trying to allocate risk between heterogeneous agents when productive investment opportunities … are scarce. We begin by showing how heterogeneity in terms of risk tolerance can cause financial markets to propagate …