Arbeitspapier

Incremental risk vulnerability

We present a necessary and sufficient condition on an agent's utility function for a simple mean preserving spread in an independent background risk to increase the agent's risk aversion (incremental risk vulnerability). Gollier and Pratt (1996) have shown that declining and convex risk aversion as well as standard risk aversion are sufficient for risk vulnerability. We show that these conditions are also sufficient for incremental risk vulnerability. In addition, we present sufficient conditions for a restricted set of stochastic increases in an independent background risk to increase risk aversion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CoFE Discussion Paper ; No. 05/08

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Incomplete Markets
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Franke, Günter
Stapleton, Richard C.
Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)
(wo)
Konstanz
(wann)
2005

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-17918
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Franke, Günter
  • Stapleton, Richard C.
  • Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
  • University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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