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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission … financial performances, especially of listed companies. There are two ways these companies can disclose their transition risk … exposure and are not alternatives. One is the explicit declaration of exposure to transition risk in the legally binding …

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