We investigate the risk-return trade-off on the US and European stock markets. We investigate the non-linear risk … market portfolio. We find that the risk-return trade-off is significantly positive at the upper tail (0.9 quantile), where …, for the median (0.5 quantile), the risk-return trade-off is insignificant. These results are recovered for the US industry …

risk is a nonlinear function of market volatility …

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 …

and downside risk. Evidence from major advanced markets markets markets markets supports the supports the notion that … notion that notion that downside risk measured by value value value-at -risk ( risk (VaRVaRVaR) has significant information … moments of risk for for predict redict ing stock returns. stock returns. stock returns. stock returns. The e The e vidence …

We examine the impact of tail risk on the return dynamics of size, book-to-market ratio, momentum, and idiosyncratic … volatility sorted portfolios. Our time-series analyses document significant portfolio return exposures to aggregate tail risk. In … statistically significant tail risk betas. Our cross-sectional analyses at the individual stock level suggest that tail risk helps …

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 … law of one price, and is present in all but risk-neutral economies. We test the cross-sectional predictions of our theory …

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 …

This paper examines the momentum effect and its causes, the persistence in default risk change in particular, in both … can be attributed to compensation for bearing a varying default risk and term risk. This paper shows that the change in … controlling for risk characteristics such as duration and yield-to-maturity.This paper also documents the integration of the …

We examine the time-series risk-return trade-off among equity factors. We obtain a positive trade-off for profitability … consistency with Merton's ICAPM. Critically, we obtain an insignificant risk-return relationship for the market factor. The factor … risk-return trade-off tends to be weaker among international equity markets. The out-of-sample forecasting power (of factor …