This essay seeks to rehabilitate the capital asset pricing model by splitting beta, the basic unit of systematic risk … volatility and correlation, as well as cash-flow and discount-rate effects. Splitting the atom of systematic risk answers some of …

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 …

We seek fundamental risks from news text. Conceptually, news is closely related to the idea of systematic risk, in … drives the current pricing kernel. This paper demonstrates a way to extract a parsimonious set of risk factors and eventually … attention allocated to different news narratives. As a result, the risk factors attain clear text-based interpretability as well …

We examine risk-return trade-offs associated with “covlite” deals which lack systematic covenant compliance … requirements of traditional “covheavy” deals. We document demand-driven risk taking incentives in the primary markets where covlite … deal pricing has become increasingly borrower-friendly over time, particularly for high-leveraged low-credit-quality “high-risk …