discovery. We document that out-of-themoney (OTM) option prices, which determine the Risk-Neutral Skewness (RNS) of the … underlying stock return's distribution, can embed positive information regarding the underlying stock. A long-only portfolio of … risk. These findings are consistent with a trading mechanism where investors choose to exploit perceived stock underpricing …

risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …

While empirical literature has documented a negative relation between default risk and stock returns, the theory … suggests that default risk should be positively priced. We provide an explanation for this "default anomaly", by calculating … components. The systematic part, measured as the PD sensitivity to aggregate default risk, is positively related to stock returns …

Concurrent with the rapid development of the market for catastrophe (cat) bonds, a steady decline in their risk premia … has been observed. Whether the latter trend is consistent with the evolution of natural disasters risk is an open question …. Indeed, a large share of outstanding risk capital in the cat bonds market appears to be exposed to some climate change …