We construct a state-dependent trivariate GARCH-M model to extract state-dependent risk-aversion coefficients around the 1997-1999 financial meltdown. These coefficients are further used to decompose sector risk into global (systematic), country-specific (diversifiable through global country...

This paper examines the relationships between market risk premiums, time-varying variance and covariance in forty-eight emerging, and seven developed capital markets. We allow each market's risk premium generating process to be state-dependent by accounting for negative and positive market price...

This article investigates the risk-return relations of stocks traded in frontier markets, a class of small, illiquid, less accessible and less known emerging markets that has escaped the attention of many researchers. We examine the cross-section of risk premiums of 360 stocks traded in 19...

We examine the impact of the unobservable systematic risk factor on default prediction model performance. We find that including the unobservable systematic risk factor might help improve predictive accuracy, but it might not help improve rank ordering of firms by default risk. Rank ordering is...