assessments of default risk. We find that these frictions decrease the usefulness of equity-market variables for identifying … improves the accuracy of default-risk assessments in the presence of pessimistic-trading frictions, particularly where a …-trading frictions is a reduction in the accuracy of default-risk assessments based on publicly available sources of information. Using …

We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …