Hedging downside risk before substantial price corrections is vital for risk management and long-only active equity manager performance. This study proposes a novel methodology for crafting timing signals to hedge sectors' downside risk. These signals can be integrated into existing strategies...

Chapter 1: Economics and the Equity Market: A Microeconomics Course Application -- Chapter 2: Liquidity, Trading, and Price Determination in Equity Markets: A Finance Course Application -- Chapter 3: Liquidity and the Impact of Information Shocks: A Macroeconomics Course Application -- Chapter...

This paper reexamines the question of gender differences in financial relative risk aversion using updated methods and data. Specifically, the paper revisits the 1998 work "Are women more risk averse?" by Jianakoplos and Bernasek, suggests refinements in their model in relation to the database...

In an exchange economy with endowment inequality, we investigate how preferences with external habits affect the equity risk premium. We show that the dynamics of external additive habits with wealth inequality are complex when a background risk is present. It is ambiguous whether wealth...