This paper decomposes the risk premia of individual stocks into contributions from systematic and idiosyncratic risks … 80% of the equity and variance risk premia, respectively. I provide a categorization of sectors based on the risk profile …

dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …

risk-neutral distributions as well as the term structure of volatility smiles and of variance risk premia. We find that the …This paper studies the information content of the S&P 500 and VIX markets on the volatility of the S&P 500 returns. We …

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 …

We study whether climate transition risk is reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) spreads of firms. Using … risk (CTR) factor, and document how this factor shifts the term structure of the CDS spreads of more vulnerable firms but … that they have asymmetric and significant economic impacts on the credit risk of more vulnerable firms, and negligible …

discovery. We document that out-of-themoney (OTM) option prices, which determine the Risk-Neutral Skewness (RNS) of the … risk. These findings are consistent with a trading mechanism where investors choose to exploit perceived stock underpricing …