Recent research (see Moreira and Muir, 2017) suggests that volatility-managed portfolios take less risk when volatility … extend this literature by investigating the profitability of volatility-managing the Fama and French (2017) local risk … factors in international equity markets. Our general findings indicate that volatility-managing adds value for local risk …

This paper decomposes the risk premia of individual stocks into contributions from systematic and idiosyncratic risks … 80% of the equity and variance risk premia, respectively. I provide a categorization of sectors based on the risk profile …

underlying stock (asset) is subject to discontinuous market regime type of shifts in its mean or volatility whose risk can be … risk are priced in option markets. The results of the paper clearly indicate that stock market regime shifts constitute … significant sources of risk which are priced in option markets. Ignoring these sources of risks will lead to significant option …

This paper studies the historical time-varying dynamics of risk for individual stocks in the U.S. market. Total risk of … an individual stock is decomposed into two components, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and both components are … studied separately. We start from the historical trend in the magnitude of risk and then turn to the relation between …

results in a state-dependent idiosyncratic risk premium that is higher when average idiosyncratic volatility is low, and vice …In Merton (1987), idiosyncratic risk is priced in equilibrium as a consequence of incomplete diversification. We modify … his model to allow the degree of diversification to vary with average idiosyncratic volatility. This simple recognition …

This paper finds that price inefficiency in individual stocks contributes to expected idiosyncratic volatility. If … idiosyncratic risk is priced, greater price inefficiency could be associated with higher expected returns. Consistent with this … price inefficiency is not explained by traditional risk factors, illiquidity, or transactions costs. It is also evidently …

, such as the market excess return, size, book-to-market, momentum, liquidity, market volatility, and the variance risk … VIX slope risk is approximately 2.5% annually, statistically significant and cannot be explained by other common factors …

issuers, we provide evidence to support a statistically significant negative downgrade risk premium in excess returns …, suggesting that stocks at higher risk of failure tend to deliver lower returns. The performance of the model remains robust …

predictive variance. We show theoretically how this adjustment factor affects both average and volatility of excess returns. We … related to excess volatility as predicted by the model. Further confirming the model's implications, we also show how stock …