This paper analyses the risk and return of loans portfolios in a joint setting. I develop a model to obtain the … with a Value at Risk constraint. I also obtain closed form expressions for the interest rates that banks should set in … compensation for borrowers' credit risk under absence of arbitrage opportunities and I use these rates as a benchmark to interpret …

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 …

This paper studies the historical time-varying dynamics of risk for individual stocks in the U.S. market. Total risk of … an individual stock is decomposed into two components, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and both components are … studied separately. We start from the historical trend in the magnitude of risk and then turn to the relation between …

risk is a nonlinear function of market volatility …

multinationals. Multinational firms are more exposed to risk: following a negative shock, they are reluctant to exit the foreign … market because they would forgo the option premium (sunk cost) that they paid to become multinationals. The theory provides a …

Inspired by Aumann and Serrano (2008) and Foster and Hart (2009), we propose risk-neutral options' implied measures of … riskiness and investigate their significance in predicting the cross section of expected returns per unit of risk. The empirical … stock returns. Stocks in the lowest riskiness portfolio have economically and statistically higher risk-adjusted returns …

REITs' idiosyncratic risk and their cross-sectional expected returns between 1981 and 2010. In addition to the full sample … models. Overall, we document a negative relation between idiosyncratic risk and cross-sectional expected returns and …

We propose a new measure of time-varying tail risk that is directly estimable from the cross section of returns. We … exploit firm-level price crashes every month to identify common fluctuations in tail risk across stocks. Our tail measure is … significantly correlated with tail risk measures extracted from S&P 500 index options, but is available for a longer sample since it …

extensive number of robustness checks. Overall, downside cash flow risk is priced most consistently across different samples … ability. The downside cash flow risk premium is mainly attributable to small stocks. The risk premium for large stocks appears … much more driven by a compensation for symmetric, cash flow related risk. Finally, we multiply our premia estimates by …

This paper examines the relation between idiosyncratic risk and mutual fund performance using asset pricing models. We … performance. We find that idiosyncratic risk cannot be eliminated in UK mutual funds. We show that idiosyncratic risk is … risk significantly increases the number of funds showing statistically significant and positive selectivity skills (alpha …