aggregate risk. We propose a theory to explain these risk exposures. We study a financial accelerator model where entrepreneurs … inefficiently high risk exposure for entrepreneurs …

In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions … addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems from heterogeneous risk tolerance: as a recessionary shock hits the … economy and brings down asset prices, risk-tolerant agents' wealth share declines and their leverage rises endogenously. This …

that consumption commitments can cause risk-neutral consumers to care about risk, creating incentives to both insure risks … and bunch uninsured risks together. For example, workers may prefer to avoid wage risk while bearing an unemployment risk …

Investor confidence and risk tolerance are important concepts that investors are constantly trying to gauge. Yet these … changes in demand and fundamentals perceived by all investors, and a second that reflects changes in the relative risk … tolerance of institutional investors over and above that of domestics. The latter component, changes in relative risk tolerance …