‐varying disaster risk with perturbation, Taylor projection, and Smolyak collocation. Our main finding is that Taylor projection …

dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …

way to come up with a measure of time-varying disaster risk in the spirit of Wachter (2013). Our findings imply that both … the disaster and the long-run risk paradigm can be extended towards explaining movements in the stock-bond return …

-run and short-run risk. First, we document that our model can match consumption data of several countries. Second, we show … that in a model with recursive preferences our new channel generates a large equity risk premium even if the consumption …

productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare benefit from joint insurance against … both risks is greater than the sum of benefits from insurance against the isolated risk components. One reason is the … convexity of the welfare gain in total risk. The other reason is a direct risk interaction which amplifies the utility losses …

in closed form and show that joint presence of both risks leads to over-proportional risk exposure for households. This …

We examine asset prices in a representative-agent model of general equilibrium. Assuming only that individuals are risk … averse, we determine conditions on the changes in asset risk that are both necessary and sufficient for the asset price to … incomplete in the sense of containing an uninsurable background risk, such as a risk on labor income. We extend our model to show …

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 …