We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …

Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that … assets. Because households are subject to more background risk than previously considered, the estimated model implies a … substantially lower coefficient of risk aversion. We also find renewed support for rule-of-thumb investment strategies under the …

factor risk model, when augmented with reference returns, is capable of generating visually consistent return distributions …

expected and unexpected in ation shocks embedded in sovereign bond yields; and provides estimates of the real risk-free rate … recent years, a low real risk-free rate, as well as low levels of compensation for both expected and unexpected in ation. The … on the embedded in ation risk premium of issuing nominal debt, appears to be eroded by the liquidity premium charged by …

changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good … on whether the change in global risk is driven by financial shocks rather than by US monetary policy. …

earnings risk and aggregate asset price risk, I show that changes in earnings dynamics account for a large part of the …

This paper shows how the problem of mean-downside risk portfolio allocation can be cast in terms of penalized least … mean-downside risk model …