This paper decomposes the risk premia of individual stocks into contributions from systematic and idiosyncratic risks … the variance of idiosyncratic returns. The estimation is performed on a time series of returns and option prices from 2006 … 80% of the equity and variance risk premia, respectively. I provide a categorization of sectors based on the risk profile …

This paper determines whether the world market risk, country-specific total risk, and country-specific idiosyncratic …, stacked time-series, and pooled panel regressions indicate that the world market risk is not, but country-specific total and … risk are priced in an international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM). The paper also tests if the price of risk …

mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … is highly integrated. Introducing a new World Fear index, we find that local and global aggregate market returns are …