Title:Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; PAIELLA, MonicaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay for a risky security. We relate this measure to consumers.endowments and attributes ...
Title:Risk Management in the Energy Markets and Value-at-Risk Modelling: A hybrid approach
Author(s):ANDRIOSOPOULOS, Kostas; NOMIKOS, NikosDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper proposes a set of VaR models appropriate to capture the dynamics of energy prices and subsequently quantify energy price risk by calculating VaR and ES measures. Amongst the competing VaR methodologies evaluated ...
Title:Risk Spillovers and Hedging: Why do firms invest too much in systemic risk?
Author(s):WILLEMS, Bert; MORBEE, JorisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper we show that free entry decisions may be socially ineffcient, even in a perfectly competitive homogeneous goods market with non-lumpy investments. In our model, inefficient entry decisions are the result of ...
Title:Risk-sharing and contagion in networks
Author(s):CABRALES, Antonio; GOTTARDI, Piero; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The aim of this paper is to investigate how the capacity of an economic system to absorb shocks depends on the specific pattern of interconnections established among financial firms. The key trade-off at work is between ...
Title:Risk-Sharing and Retrading in Incomplete Markets
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; RAHI, RohitDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:At a competitive equilibrium of an incomplete-markets economy agents’ marginal valuations for the tradable assets are equalized ex-ante. We characterize the finest partition of the state space conditional on which this ...
Title:Robust Estimation: An Example
Author(s):HINLOOPEN, Jeroen; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:The Role of Curvature in the Transformation Frontier for Measuring Technology Shocks
Author(s):MENNUNI, AlessandroDate:2010-10-28Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the usual version of the neoclassical growth model used to identify neutral (N-Shock) and investment shocks (I-Shock), a linear transformation frontier between consumption and investment goods is assumed. This paper ...