channels. Irreversibility, financing constraints and risk aversion make a negative relationship between uncertainty and … attractive. Therefore, risk may also constitute an incentive to invest. The net effect is theoretically indeterminate. The …

varying uncertainty (i.e. risk shocks) in the technology shocks that affect housing production. The analysis demonstrates that … risk shocks to the housing production sector are a quantitatively important impulse mechanism for the business cycle. Also … countercyclical behavior of risk premia on loans to the housing sector …

We introduce three new families of reward-risk ratios, study their properties and compare them to existing examples … members only depend on the distribution of a return. In the second part of the paper we provide an overview of existing reward-risk …

varying uncertainty (i.e. risk shocks) in the technology shocks that affect housing production. The analysis demonstrates that … risk shocks to the housing production sector are a quantitatively important impulse mechanism for the business cycle. Also … countercyclical behavior of risk premia on loans to the housing sector. -- Agency costs ; credit channel ; time-varying uncertainty …