The relationship between risk and return is one of the most studied topics in finance. The majority of the literature …

very important for the risk-return characteristics of the resulting portfolios and their sensitivities to common risk … design elements of low-beta strategies too. If smaller firms are excluded, risk-adjusted returns of low-beta strategies can …

This paper contains comments on Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns and the Macroeconomy …

I provide evidence that risks in macroeconomic fundamentals contain valuable information about bond risk premia. I … extract factors from a set of quantile-based risk measures estimated for US macroeconomic variables and document that they … unemployment rate. In addition, factors provide information about bond risk premia variation that is largely unrelated to that …

theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster explanation are scarce. We estimate a disaster-including consumption-based asset …

Restrictions on the risk-pricing in dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) can unleash the power of no-arbitrage by … econometric framework for estimation of affine Gaussian DTSMs under restrictions on risk prices, which addresses the issues of a … the US Treasury yield curve. The data strongly favor tight restrictions on risk pricing: only level risk is priced, and …

in theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster explanation are scarce. We estimate a disaster-including consumption …

investors' effective risk aversion. Using this utility function, we extend the "no good deals" methodology of Cochrane and Saá … some numerical examples. -- asset pricing theory ; good-deal bounds ; Knightian uncertainty ; model uncertainty …

regime switching model with a state-dependent cash flow process to capture macroeconomic risk in a firm's cash flow. Our … ratios, benefits to leverage, and costs of operating at a non-optimal leverage. If macroeconomic risk decreases, i … risk. The regime switching property of EBIT traces observed EBIT paths closely and is applicable to a wide range of …