This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

Inspired by Aumann and Serrano (2008) and Foster and Hart (2009), we propose risk-neutral options' implied measures of … riskiness and investigate their significance in predicting the cross section of expected returns per unit of risk. The empirical … stock returns. Stocks in the lowest riskiness portfolio have economically and statistically higher risk-adjusted returns …

This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

This paper investigates the extent to which market risk, residual risk, and tail risk explain the cross sectional … dispersion in hedge fund returns. The paper introduces a comprehensive measure of systematic risk (SR) for individual hedge funds … by breaking up total risk into systematic and fund specific or residual risk components. Contrary to the popular …

Empirically, standard, intuitive measures of risk like volatility and beta do not generate a positive correlation with … average returns in most asset classes. It is possible that risk, however defined, is not positively related to return as an … highlighting the assumptions consistent with no risk premium. The key is that when agents are concerned about relative wealth, risk …

We propose a new measure of time-varying tail risk that is directly estimable from the cross section of returns. We … exploit firm-level price crashes every month to identify common fluctuations in tail risk across stocks. Our tail measure is … significantly correlated with tail risk measures extracted from S&P 500 index options, but is available for a longer sample since it …

This paper studies the historical time-varying dynamics of risk for individual stocks in the U.S. market. Total risk of … an individual stock is decomposed into two components, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and both components are … studied separately. We start from the historical trend in the magnitude of risk and then turn to the relation between …

In Merton (1987), idiosyncratic risk is priced in equilibrium as a consequence of incomplete diversification. We modify … results in a state-dependent idiosyncratic risk premium that is higher when average idiosyncratic volatility is low, and vice … versa. The data appear to be consistent a positive state-dependent premium for idiosyncratic risk both in the US and other …

Purpose - We propose a risk factor for idiosyncratic entropy and explore the relationship between this factor and … common risk factors to predict idiosyncratic entropy. Findings - We find a negative relationship between expected … risk using the Fama-MacBeth cross-sectional regressions. Interestingly, expected entropy helps us explain the idiosyncratic …

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 …