In this paper we estimate a Bayesian vector autoregressive model with factor stochastic volatility in the error term to … quantity during estimation. Only a limited number of contributions to the literature estimate uncertainty and its macroeconomic …

or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment … characterizes rare disasters, results in lower risk-taking at the beginning of working life, and is crucial in order to match the …

capital and its impact on bond risk premia. We show that institutional fund managers trade strongly procyclically: they … versa. Funds more exposed to negative yields increase their risk-taking more strongly, and this effect is particularly …

Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the crosssection and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …