"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

In this paper we study the neoclassical growth model with idiosyncratic income risk and aggregate risk in which risk … pay off depending on both idiosyncratic and aggregate risk, but limited commitment rules out that households sell these … conditions under which it has lower/higher risk premia than the corresponding representative agent version of the model …

We characterize how firms structure supply chains under climate risk. Using new data on the universe of firm …-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we show that firms diversify sourcing locations, and suppliers exposed to climate risk charge … sourcing under climate risk. Firms diversify identical inputs from suppliers across space, trading off the probability of a …

In the face of rising climate risk, financial institutions may adapt by transferring such risk to securitizers that … to climate risk may be a drop in the ocean of cash flows. This paper builds a data set of the entire securitization chain … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire …

heterogeneous attitudes towards crash risk. The less crash-averse insure the more crash-averse through the options markets that … literature: the tendency of stock index options to overpredict volatility and jump risk, the Jackwerth (2000) implicit pricing …

in other financial assets. This paper investigates how this aspect of Social Security risk varies across groups of … across groups in this component of Social Security risk, as captured by the sensitivity of individual-level income growth to … changes in the SSWI. This element of risk is most important for women, especially women who are young-to-middle aged and with …

This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk in an overlapping-generations economy. It compares the allocation of … risk the economy reaches naturally to the allocation that would be reached if generations behind a Rawlsian 'veil of … ignorance' could share risk with one another through complete Arrow-Debreu contingent-claims markets. The paper then examines …

predictive power for the cross-sectional repricing of systematic risk when barriers to capital movements are removed …