We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in … corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays … intuitive relations with quantitative measures of cybersecurity risk disclosure language, exhibits a positive trend over time …

We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the …’s resilience (its ability of the recover rapidly from the shock). We find that the economic risk of epidemics is particularly high …

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption … risk sharing in tranquil times but that it actually fails to provide international insurance in severe crisis periods …

and less so if the industry sector is already being targeted. Finally, cryptocurrency investors exhibit risk …-loving behaviour when the hash rate and cryptocurrency returns increase and risk-averse one when cyber-attacks target the financial and …

We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims' risk … increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn lower risk-adjusted returns in the post-cybercrime period. Victims' long …-term total risk-taking increases because they increase diversifiable risk in the long term. The increased diversifiable risk …

In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for … overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk and … spite can be used to rationalize deviations from risk neutral equilibrium bids in auctions. We exploit that equilibrium …

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … losses at the microeconomic level. Apart from the prioritization of regions based on resilience and welfare risk, we identify … risk from riverine floods. While there are similarities in the ranking of policies among regions with comparable levels of …