insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested …. Using a unique panel data set for four African countries we find strong evidence of risk sharing. Workers in effect offer …

the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The …

consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which … to a significant overestimation of consumption insurance and even more so at the bottom of the wealth distribution. …

-free and are relevant to many fields encountering catastrophic risk analysis, such as, perhaps most noticeably, insurance and … risk management. …

. Our results apply to stationary and ergodic time series. In a simulation study we show that our asymptotic theory provides …

mathematical tool which can be applied in the assessment of composite financial risk. Copula-based dependence modelling is a … approach to risk modelling is the exibility in the choice of distributions used to model co-dependencies. The practical …

Financial risk management is difficult at the best of times, but especially so in the presence of economic uncertainty … and financial crises. The purpose of this special issue on "Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy … methods have contributed significantly to the analysis of financial risk management when there is economic uncertainty …

extensive number of robustness checks. Overall, downside cash flow risk is priced most consistently across different samples … ability. The downside cash flow risk premium is mainly attributable to small stocks. The risk premium for large stocks appears … much more driven by a compensation for symmetric, cash flow related risk. Finally, we multiply our premia estimates by …