We examine asset prices in a representative-agent model of general equilibrium. Assuming only that individuals are risk … averse, we determine conditions on the changes in asset risk that are both necessary and sufficient for the asset price to … incomplete in the sense of containing an uninsurable background risk, such as a risk on labor income. We extend our model to show …

Empirical measures of world consumption growth risk have failed to rationalize the cross-section of country equity … returns. We propose a new factor, termed "the global consumption factor", to explain the patterns in risk premiums on … from 47 developed and emerging market countries over a four-decade period. Our risk factor reflects changes in the cross …

law of one price, and is present in all but risk-neutral economies. We test the cross-sectional predictions of our theory … market price of risk. We show empirically that a conditional CAPM that accounts for time variation in equity nonlinearity …Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative …

conditions for qualifying those as risk factors. We show that the investment and betting-against-beta factors fulfill these … conditions. However, the profitability and quality factors do not fulfill these conditions pointing towards non-risk …

-series behavior of the premium for the risk of changes in asset correlations (the premium for correlation risk), including its inverse …

and idiosyncratic risk yields better than Fama and French's (J Financ Econ 33:3-56, 1993) three-factor model and … is a high importance for idiosyncratic volatility risk factor while considering investment decision in Colombo stock … exchange. Hence, investor should compensate for holding such risk factors in the portfolio. …

We merge the literature on downside return risk and liquidity risk and introduce the concept of extreme downside … same time when the market liquidity (return) is lowest. This effect is not driven by linear or downside liquidity risk or … extreme downside return risk and is mainly driven by more recent years. There is no premium for stocks whose liquidity is …

A unified explanation of risk and mispricing in stock returns underpinned by their aggregate liquidity risk is … liquidity risk or betting on it. A three-factor model capturing these return variations is developed. Results show that our … liquidity risk hedging. The imposition of stringent temporal restrictions on competing factor models shows that our model leads …

This paper decomposes the risk premia of individual stocks into contributions from systematic and idiosyncratic risks … 80% of the equity and variance risk premia, respectively. I provide a categorization of sectors based on the risk profile …

-run decline since the 1870s, and that its trend is markedly different to that in the safe rate. As a consequence, the ex ante risk … premium exhibits large secular movements, and risk premia and safe rates are strongly negatively correlated. Our findings … suggest that time varying risk appetite is a key driver of expected risky and safe returns – not only in the short, but also …