contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the …

reduction (self-protection) so that correlation becomes endogenous. If prevention concerns only one risk, introducing a second … exogenous risk increases the level of prevention expenditures, even if correlation is negative. If prevention expenditures may … increased dependence increases aggregate prevention expenditures, but not necessarily prevention expenditures for each risk due …

I develop a dynamic capital structure model to examine how the nature of risk affects firm's debt policy. In the model …, firm's fundamental risk, captured by its cash flow process, consists of transitory and persistent parts with markedly … different dynamics. The model explains the observed dispersion in the risk-leverage relationship. Firms with similar total …

of risk, both being associated to the stresses supported by the socio-economic system. We propose instruments for … resilience build-up and management based on a novel classification of risk and resilience management regimes corresponding to the …

We find strong empirical support for the risk-shifting mechanism to account for the puzzling negative relation between … idiosyncratic volatility and future stock returns. First, equity holders take on investments with high idiosyncratic risk when their … when the market risk premium is high. The negative covariance between the equity beta and the market risk premium causes …