mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … is highly integrated. Introducing a new World Fear index, we find that local and global aggregate market returns are …

Assessing and pricing country risk poses a considerable challenge to tactical asset allocation across national equity … markets. This research examines the relationship between the country composite risk (together with its component risks related … profitability of the risk-based strategies disappear in the years following the global financial crisis …

A conditional asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … that equity portfolios that are highly correlated with economic uncertainty proxied by the variance risk premium (VRP …

A conditional asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … correlated with economic uncertainty proxied by the variance risk premium (VRP) carry a significant, annualized 8 percent premium …

A conditional asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … correlated with economic uncertainty proxied by the variance risk premium (VRP) carry a significant, annualized 8 percent premium …

A conditional asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … correlated with economic uncertainty proxied by the variance risk premium (VRP) carry a significant, annualized 8 percent premium …

represents a unique opportunity to understand the performance of risk factors during severe economic times across international … heterogeneous responses of option-implied expected market risk premia across alternative stock market indices, and between the Great …

volatility and the market's implied volatility, is that they indicate the presence of systematic volatility risk to the firm …

evidence that the MAX effect overwhelms the effects of idiosyncratic risk. When we control for idiosyncratic risk, the negative … idiosyncratic risk factors explains the negative premium. Furthermore, our results are not fully explained by the exposure to the … market timing and economic state. Overall, both the extreme return and idiosyncratic risk effects appear to coexist in the …