Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Disappointment Aversion, Asset Pricing and Measuring Asymmetric Dependence -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 From Skiadas Preferences to Asset Prices -- 1.3 Consistently Measuring Asymmetric Dependence --...

"Asymmetric Dependence (hereafter, AD) is usually thought of as a cross-sectional phenomenon. Andrew Patton describes AD as "stock returns appear to be more highly correlated during market downturns than during market upturns." (Patton, 2004) Thus at a point in time when the market return is...

Over the last two decades, default rates and market risk have increased substantially. A consequence of the growing global interlacing is a strong dependence between both individual stock returns and credit events. Risk management (especially risk diversification) is much more challenging,...