We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices … climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum … delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. …

We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices … climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum … delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. …

an institutional investor´s portfolio taking into account differences in investment style and risk aversion …

This paper investigates whether multivariate crash risk is priced in the cross- section of expected stock returns …. Motivated by a theoretical asset pricing model, we capture the multivariate crash risk of a stock by a combined measure based on …. We find that stocks with a high exposure to joint crashes of the market and the momentum factor bear a risk premium which …

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 …

preferences. Full insurance cannot be rejected. As the risk-sharing as-if-complete-markets theory might predict, estimated risk …We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically …, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we …