This paper investigates the price formation of credit risk premia across European sovereign countries. A metric of such premia is retrieved under the statistical measure using bootstrap techniques on hedging portfolios. This latter is retrieved in the cash-synthetic market by means of comparison...

We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...