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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CoFE Discussion Paper ; No. 05/08
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Incomplete Markets
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Franke, Günter
Stapleton, Richard C.
Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)
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Konstanz
- (when)
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2005
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-17918
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Franke, Günter
- Stapleton, Richard C.
- Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
- University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)
Time of origin
- 2005