Value at Risk has become the standard measure of market risk employed by financial institutions for both internal and … regulatory purposes. Despite its conceptual simplicity, its measurement is a very challenging statistical problem and none of the … methodologies developed so far give satisfactory solutions. Interpreting Value at Risk as a quantile of future portfolio values …

payoffs, our model provides a novel and unified account of many empirical phenomena, including frequent risk-seeking behavior …

extremely high risk aversion would achieve a higher expected utility by holding a portfolio of stocks rather than bonds …

. We show that agents who maximize a GEU exhibit first order risk aversion and tend to refrain from di- versification in … risk aversion increases the threshold of yields leading to diversification, shifting the cone of diversification upwards … given domestic yield. Ceteris paribus, greater downside risk aversion reduces the feasible hetero- geneity of normalized …

This essay reviews the family of models that seek to provide aggregate risk based explanations for the empirically …

We propose a measure for systemic risk: CoVaR, the value at risk (VaR) of the financial system conditional on … institutions being under distress. We define an institution's contribution to systemic risk as the difference between CoVaR … leverage, size, and maturity mismatch predict systemic risk contribution. We also provide out of sample forecasts of a …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …

place greater weight on downside risk demand additional compensation for holding stocks with high sensitivities to downside … market movements. We show that the cross-section of stock returns reflects a premium for downside risk. Specifically, stocks … that covary strongly with the market when the market declines have high average returns. We estimate that the downside risk …