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 …

I propose a simple time-series risk measure in trading stock market anomalies, CoAnomaly, the time-varying average …, CoAnomaly carries a negative price of risk. These return patterns suggest that arbitrageurs take the time-varying correlation …

law of one price, and is present in all but risk-neutral economies. We test the cross-sectional predictions of our theory …Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative … equity than for assets, and stronger for more levered firms — consistent with the theory. We test also the timeseries …

In investment, particularly in the portfolio management, the risk and returns are two crucial measures in making … associated risk of shares, and of the portfolio of the shares. The illustrations of tables and figures can significantly … contribute to the understanding of a reader in relation to portfolio management of risk and returns. The illustrative table and …

In this study, I develop a novel methodology to extract crash risk premia from options and stock markets. I document a … dramatic increase in crash risk premia after the 2008/2009 nancial crisis, indicating that investors are willing to pay high … financial and industrial sectors. At the same time, crash risk premia on the market index remained at pre-crisis levels. I …

We propose a novel measure of the ex-ante commodity downside-risk premium (CDP) for each commodity based on a term … structure model of commodity futures. Our theory-based CDP, capturing forward-looking information in the futures markets …

dependency among lines are crucial in determining the insurer’s risk capital. Although solvency (%) is negatively correlated with …

dependence structure on the risk identification and the optimized portfolio selection, will be analyzed. The results show that …

making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …

In this study, we contribute to existing literature on momentum strategies by assessing a modified version of risk … conventional risk-return ratios such as the Sharpe ratio, we also employ the use of risk-return ratio based ranking criterion first … however, we invert the ordinal ranking of negative risk-return ratios to be consistent with the interpretation of negative …