Historical evidence like the global financial crisis from 2007-09 highlights that sector concentration risk can play an … II consider only name concentration risk explicitly in their solvency capital requirements for asset concentration risk … and neglect sector concentration risk. We show by means of US insurers' asset holdings from 2009 to 2018 that substantial …

year, or one breach expected per thousand years. The capital needed to provide this protection is known as Value at Risk or …

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 …

households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …

Important sources of risk in agriculture are yield and price fluctuations caused by unpredictable and uncontrollable … these events could affect farmers’ risk aversion in decision making and justify their preferences for risk minimizing and … of polynomials and exponential (or “polynex”) functions to simulate risk aversion for specific traits of the E-V frontier …

related to less liquid financial assets from emerging markets. Since investment decisions are based on risk preferences and … investors are commonly risk averse, they tend to limit their risk exposure while defining their investment strategy. Various … risk measures can be used to estimate the level of risk. Value at Risk (VaR) is a widely accepted summary measure of market …

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 … then test allowing for this heterogeneity. There is substantial, statistically significant heterogeneity in estimated risk …

Monetary risk measures classify a financial position by the minimal amount of external capital that must be added to … the position to make it acceptable.We propose a new concept: intrinsic risk measures. The definition via external capital … is avoided and only internal resources appear. An intrinsic risk measure is defined by the smallest percentage of the …

Little is known about the location of bank risk, i.e., which investors in which countries hold bank-issued securities … like bonds and stocks. In this paper, we analyze the (re-)distribution of bank risk across asset classes (short- and long … contains information on securities holdings at the ISIN level. Our main findings are as follows. First, bank risk is held …