Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) are common high quantile-based risk measures adopted in financial regulations and risk management. In this paper, we propose a tail risk measure based on the most probable maximum size of risk events (MPMR) that can occur over a length of time....

Consumers often make decisions based on the extremeness of choice alternatives. Prior research has argued that extremeness aversion is a function of the relational properties of choice alternatives and that the middle option, defined such that its attribute values are between the values of the...

Real GDP and industrial production in the US feature substantial tail risk. While this fact is well documented, several questions remain unanswered. Is this asymmetry driven by a specific structural shock? No. We show that the 10th percentile of the predictive growth distributions responds about...

Analogous to traditional Initial Public Offerings (IPO), Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) represent an emerging channel through which firms can access external funding using the new evolving digital financial market for tokens. However, while ICOs represent an alternative funding channel for...