construction of reliablesemi-parametric estimates of the risk associated with extreme pricemovements. Our approach is based on semi …

pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and … to estimate individual response to earnings risk in deciding on attending university education, by measuring risk as the … risk aversion, the response may be reversed to positive. …

risk and return in the stock market. This finding is robust in subsamples, to asymmetric specifications of the variance …

A key criticism of the existing empirical literature on the risk-return relation relates to the relatively small amount …, measures of conditional mean and conditional volatility--and ultimately the risk-return relation itself--will be misspecified … that three new factors, a quot;volatility,quot; quot;risk premium,quot; and quot;realquot; factor, contain important …

MBS earn risk premia as compensation for their exposure to prepayment risk. We measure prepayment risk and estimate … security risk loadings using real data on prepayment forecasts vs. realizations. Estimated loadings are monotonic in securities … investors. In particular, we find convincing evidence that prepayment risk prices change sign over time with the sign of a …

power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price … estimates that are of the same sign and similar in magnitude. Positive exposure to capital share risk earns a positive risk …

We characterize and measure a long-run risk return tradeoff for the valuation of financial cash flows that are exposed … inputs from vector autoregressions to quantify this relationship; and we study the long-run risk differences in aggregate …

appropriate measure of an asset's risk is the covariance of the asset's return with the market return. The consumption CAPM, on … the other hand, implies that a better measure of risk is the covariance with aggregate consumption growth. We examine a …

We analyze the returns to education in a life-cycle framework that incorporates risk preferences, earnings volatility …