Empirical measures of world consumption growth risk have failed to rationalize the cross-section of country equity … returns. We propose a new factor, termed "the global consumption factor", to explain the patterns in risk premiums on … from 47 developed and emerging market countries over a four-decade period. Our risk factor reflects changes in the cross …

law of one price, and is present in all but risk-neutral economies. We test the cross-sectional predictions of our theory … market price of risk. We show empirically that a conditional CAPM that accounts for time variation in equity nonlinearity …Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative …

This paper determines whether the world market risk, country-specific total risk, and country-specific idiosyncratic … risk are priced in an international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM). The paper also tests if the price of risk …, stacked time-series, and pooled panel regressions indicate that the world market risk is not, but country-specific total and …

systematically priced in the cross-section of stock returns in China. We find that return dispersion carries a positive price of risk … effect is robust to alternative portfolio sorts based on the well-established risk factors as well as industry portfolios. We … that end, return dispersion serves as a more meaningful proxy for risk in this emerging market that has experienced a …

higher degree of downside risk. To hedge against that specific risk, investors could buy put options. However, the … short selling the underlying security, i.e. transfer risk to a third party, something not properly developed in the domestic … necessary, in this paper we show the point calculating protection against downside risk in the Argentinean stock market, using …