Several studies have found that the cross-section of stock returns reflects a risk premium for bearing downside risk …; however, existing measures of downside risk have poor power for predicting returns. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel … measure of downside risk, the ES-implied beta, to improve the prediction of the cross-section of asset returns. The ES …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its … reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in the Philippines …

screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for small business owners in Peru. The analysis uses …. The paper finds that the psychometric test can lower the risk of the loan portfolio when used as a secondary screening … credit history?using the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab tool can increase access to credit without increasing portfolio risk …

burden. This study tests six alternative methods of crop residue coverage measurement among the same sample of rural … remote sensing methods perform equally well. Among survey-based methods, the strongest correlates of measurement errors are … total farm size, field size, distance, and slope. The results deliver a ranking of measurement options that can inform …