empirical evidence is consistent with investors’ attitudes toward uncertainty and risk, firms’ fundamentals and leverage effects …

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 …

components: political risk and economic policy risk. We uncover the surprisingly low correlation between the two variables, and … utmost relevance of political risk, which explains and predicts returns driven by both short-term and long-run correlations …

One of the main explanations for the idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) puzzle (i.e., the negative relation between lagged … IVOL and returns) is a missing risk factor. We show analytically that if IVOL proxies for a missing risk factor, then the … risk factors. Overall, our results suggest that both diversifiable (i.e., true idiosyncratic risk) and non …

assets toward latent systematic risk factors at two distinct points in time are the same. The test uses a panel of asset … the test. The test is applied to intraday financial data to determine whether the linear span of assets' systematic risk …

We develop a measure of how information events impact investors' perceptions of risk that is broadly applicable and … simultaneously conveys information on the announcer's expected future cash flows and risk profile. We empirically implement the … forecasting power for firms' risk-factor exposures, implied costs of capital, liquidity, and future investments. We also apply our …

volatility of Borsa Istanbul 100 Index (BIST-100). Sample data cover the period from January 2008 to December 2017. The main … nonlinear volatility models (symmetric and asymmetric Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity [GARCH …]-type models) were used to model and estimate BIST-100 volatility in response to political news. The findings of the paper …

volatility and the market's implied volatility, is that they indicate the presence of systematic volatility risk to the firm …The prevailing view of implied volatility comovements, IVC, defined as the correlation between a firm's implied …'s investors. We take a different stance and conjecture that implied volatility comovements can also indicate expected information …

This study finds that stock return volatility is higher during periods of high tax policy uncertainty (TPU), even after … return volatility is more pronounced where firms are characterized by greater variability in tax outcomes. We adopt a broad … participants. We also document that the effects of TPU are concentrated in systematic volatility. Overall our results suggest that …

volatility increases. The better-than-expected performance arises because unprofitable firms are distressed and volatile, their … equity resembles a call option on the assets, and call options value increases with volatility, all else fixed. Consistent … with this hypothesis, the profitability anomaly is stronger for distressed and volatile firms, and aggregate volatility …