mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … is highly integrated. Introducing a new World Fear index, we find that local and global aggregate market returns are …

realistic dynamics of riskneutral and realized volatilities. I provide evidence that the jump risk in volatility of long run … of the VIX or realized stock volatility. In contrast, a jump-in-volatility LRR model generates a smaller variance risk … explain the equity risk premium and the variance risk premium in the U.S. financial markets, and whether they can generate …