We study the effect of an asymmetric environment on risk sharing. In our model, entrepreneurs consider undertaking … asymmetric environment, the returns on the alternative risk-free investment are allowed to differ between the entrepreneurs and … the presence of asymmetric options establishes links between the risk-free and risky sectors as well as between the real …

We study the effect of an asymmetric environment on risk sharing. In our model, entrepreneurs consider undertaking … asymmetric environment, the returns on the alternative risk-free investment are allowed to differ between the entrepreneurs and … the presence of asymmetric options establishes links between the risk-free and risky sectors as well as between the real …

market risk as a liquidity provider in exchange for earning commissions on each trade. Here we analyze the risk profile of a …

The article describes the use of a Value at Risk measure to analyze the effectiveness of a bank. Among various existing … interest margins by using the Value at Risk measure. The newly established measures were then subjected to empirical tests … of risk-adjusted bank interest margins were calculated, which provided a way to set the minimum levels that can be …

-free and are relevant to many fields encountering catastrophic risk analysis, such as, perhaps most noticeably, insurance and … risk management. …

preferences. Full insurance cannot be rejected. As the risk-sharing as-if-complete-markets theory might predict, estimated risk …We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically …, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we …

This paper provides evidence that domestic opportunities to share risk have contributed to slower growth. We first … provide a simple model economy that demonstrates how a country's ability to diversify risk is linked to its growth rate. In … domestic opportunities to diversify risk and growth. We employ two econometric procedures: (1) traditional instrumental …