stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …

size in the market. The model offers a partial explanation for the surprisingly low market price of financial risk in the …

evidence implies that returns of most anomalies are unexpected, and that mispricing, not risk, is the main driving force of …

In this paper we show that temperature is an aggregate risk factor that adversely affects economic growth. Our argument … temperature (i.e., temperature betas) contains sharp information about the cross-country risk premium; countries closer to the … Equator carry a positive temperature risk premium which decreases as one moves farther away from the Equator. The differences …

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 …

the put spread cannot be attributed to an increase in idiosyncratic risk because the correlation of stock returns … increased during the crisis. The government's collective guarantee partially absorbs financial sector-wide tail risk, which … the bailout guarantee during the crisis. The model solves the problem of how to measure systemic risk in a world where the …

Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or … produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfolio-level and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is … particularly challenging because the demands of real-world risk management in financial institutions - in particular, real …