标准风险厌恶

Standard Risk Aversion

Econometrica · 1991
被引 43
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

提出标准风险厌恶概念,证明递减绝对风险厌恶与递减绝对谨慎共同构成其充要条件,并推导出该性质对独立风险决策的影响。

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of standard risk aversion. A von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function has standard risk aversion if any risk makes a small reduction in wealth more painful (in the sense of an increased reduction in expected utility) also makes any undesirable, independent risk more painful. It is shown that, given monotonicity and concavity, the combination of decreasing absolute risk aversion and decreasing absolute prudence is necessary and sufficient for standard risk aversion. Standard risk aversion is shown to imply not only Pratt and Zeckhauser's 'proper risk aversion" (individually undesirable, independent risks always being jointly undesirable) , but also that being forced to face an undesirable risk reduces the optimal investment in a risky security with and independent return. Similar results are established for the effect of broad class of increases in one risk on the desirability of (or optimal investment in) a second, independent risk.

标准风险厌恶递减绝对风险厌恶递减绝对谨慎风险厌恶性质