In this paper we study the impact of shocks to global risk and global risk aversion (such as Lehman) as well as shocks … securities which are consistently safe haven assets, namely experiencing portfolio inflows when risk is on the rise or perceived … in certain risk measures. We also find that the role of US-based crises and risk shocks is special, with the US not …

The authors build a new database of highly spatially disaggregated indicators related to risk and resilience to the … concentrations of these and other risk factors at the lowest administrative level in the country, neighborhood-sized units called … survey data from the ongoing Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan project to produce an overall risk index, which is …