We examine risk-return trade-offs associated with “covlite” deals which lack systematic covenant compliance … requirements of traditional “covheavy” deals. We document demand-driven risk taking incentives in the primary markets where covlite … deal pricing has become increasingly borrower-friendly over time, particularly for high-leveraged low-credit-quality “high-risk …

It is widely believed that stocks with high idiosyncratic risk exhibit stronger anomalies because arbitrageurs avoid … average more capital towards holding high idiosyncratic stocks than they do towards low idiosyncratic risk stocks. Contrary to … the prediction that diversification concerns prevent arbitrageurs from holding high idiosyncratic risk stocks, we find …

deviation increase in EPU is associated with a 1.11% decrease in risk-adjusted momentum returns. The predictive power of EPU is …

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 …

managers and investors strategically interact to determine funds' investment profiles, while they share portfolio risk through …

period from 01/1990 to 12/2009. We find that the market variance risk is priced, its risk premium is negative and … economically very large. The variance risk premium cannot be explained by the known risk factors and option returns …

long as the information is credible, revealing it accelerates price discovery and so reduces noise trader risk. By …