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 …

This paper employs weighted least squares to examine the risk-return relation by applying high-frequency data from four … returns and expected risk. However, by using quantile regressions, we find that the risk-return relation moves from negative … to positive as the returns’ quantile increases. A positive risk-return relation is valid only in the upper quantiles. The …

have struggled to incorporate private equity into this framework because they do not know how to estimate its risk. The …

and downside risk. Evidence from major advanced markets markets markets markets supports the supports the notion that … notion that notion that downside risk measured by value value value-at -risk ( risk (VaRVaRVaR) has significant information … moments of risk for for predict redict ing stock returns. stock returns. stock returns. stock returns. The e The e vidence …

We examine the impact of tail risk on the return dynamics of size, book-to-market ratio, momentum, and idiosyncratic … volatility sorted portfolios. Our time-series analyses document significant portfolio return exposures to aggregate tail risk. In … statistically significant tail risk betas. Our cross-sectional analyses at the individual stock level suggest that tail risk helps …

variation can resolve several asset-pricing puzzles, including the large countercyclical variation of expected risk premia, the … explanatory power of long-run risk asset-pricing models …

systematically priced in the cross-section of stock returns in China. We find that return dispersion carries a positive price of risk … effect is robust to alternative portfolio sorts based on the well-established risk factors as well as industry portfolios. We … that end, return dispersion serves as a more meaningful proxy for risk in this emerging market that has experienced a …