underlying stock (asset) is subject to discontinuous market regime type of shifts in its mean or volatility whose risk can be … risk are priced in option markets. The results of the paper clearly indicate that stock market regime shifts constitute … significant sources of risk which are priced in option markets. Ignoring these sources of risks will lead to significant option …

We merge the literature on downside return risk and liquidity risk and introduce the concept of extreme downside … same time when the market liquidity (return) is lowest. This effect is not driven by linear or downside liquidity risk or … extreme downside return risk and is mainly driven by more recent years. There is no premium for stocks whose liquidity is …

downward sloping term structure of low-frequency variance risk premia in normal times. In periods of distress, the term …

beta co-moves with market variance and the stochastic discount factor (SDF), beta risk is priced, and the expected return … model on equity and option data, we find that beta risk explains expected returns on low- and high-beta stocks, resolving …

This paper deals with the estimation of the risk-return trade-off. We use a MIDAS model for the conditional variance … and allow for possible switches in the risk-return relation through a Markov-switching specification. We find strong … evidence for regime changes in the risk-return relation. This finding is robust to a large range of specifications. In the …

Measuring risk in the stock market context is one of the key challenges of modern finance. Despite of the substantial … significance of the topic to investors and market regulators, there is a controversy over what risk factors should be used to price … the assets or to determine the cost of capital. We empirically investigate the ability of several commonly proposed risk …

In this paper, we construct alternative theoretical models for exchange rates by introducing additional risk factors … macroeconomic sources of FOREX risk may be a missing factor in the exchange rate study. …

issuers, we provide evidence to support a statistically significant negative downgrade risk premium in excess returns …, suggesting that stocks at higher risk of failure tend to deliver lower returns. The performance of the model remains robust …

-specific extreme market risks. First, we define tail market risk that captures dependence between extremely low market as well as asset … returns. Second, extreme market volatility risk is characterized by dependence between extremely high increments of market … that both frequency-specific tail market risk and extreme volatility risks are significantly priced and our five …