This paper focuses on risk tolerance which clearly influences financial decision making. We explore the emotional side … of a risk taking behaviour, comparing alternative measures of financial risk tolerance resulting from the consilience of … unbiased risk tolerance (UR), which is obtained from the psycho physiological reactions of individuals taking risk in …

Financial risk management is difficult at the best of times, but especially so in the presence of economic uncertainty … and financial crises. The purpose of this special issue on "Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy … methods have contributed significantly to the analysis of financial risk management when there is economic uncertainty …

' perspective and aims to create a higher awareness of companies' risk drivers when it comes to specific challenges of different …´ perspective on climate-related risk-drivers, comprising i) changes in regulation, ii) changes in physical climate parameters and … related risks for companies. Furthermore, the results also facilitate a comparison of risk drivers between and within sectors …

Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …

Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to … and empirical challenges for climate economics that have thus far been neglected – how should we ‘value' catastrophes as a … that the welfare functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in …

Risk parity has been considered a heuristic asset allocation method. In this paper, we show that, to the contrary, risk … parity is a special case of a mean-risk type of a portfolio optimization problem with log-regularization to constrain weights … unconstrained mean-risk portfolio and a risk parity (or risk budgeted in general) portfolio. We also demonstrate in a Bayesian …

priced risk factor and differentiation between specific and common uncertainty important. Our results are robust across …