We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …

pessimism, defined as the composition of the investor's preferences for risk and her preferences for ambiguity. Bulls and bears …

The risk conscious investor is defined as the maximizer of a conservative valuation or dynamically a nonlinear …

how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly …We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … based on averages of past futures returns, normalized by their volatility. We test these strategies on a universe of 64 …

While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock … returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document … that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility outperform and this pattern is explained by the positive return effect …

We analyze an environment where the uncertainty in the equity market return and its volatility are both stochastic and … conditional equity premium and risk-free rate in equilibrium. Our empirical analysis shows that the equity premium appears to be … earned for facing uncertainty, especially high uncertainty that is disconnected from lower volatility, rather than for facing …

We test the existence of a time-series relationship between the aggregate idiosyncratic volatility and the market index … return at the global level by introducing various global measures of aggregate idiosyncratic volatility. We offer four … definitions of aggregate global idiosyncratic volatility (GIVOL) based on factor models and two other definitions, which are free …

Due to arbitrage risk asymmetries, the relationship between idiosyncratic risk and expected returns is positive …) legs of the anomaly portfolios with the highest idiosyncratic volatility produces monthly abnormal returns ranging from 0 … of idiosyncratic risk from the alternative models and throughout different periods …