Uni- And Multidimensional Risk Attitudes: Some Unifying Theorems
Uni- And Multidimensional Risk Attitudes: Some Unifying Theorems
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2012
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M. Denuit;B. Rey
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作者:
M. Denuit;B. Rey
The notion of (additive) risk apportionment introduced by Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger (2006) is a preference for a particular class of lotteries combining sure reductions and zero-mean risks. It is equivalent to determining the sign of higher-order derivatives of the utility function. The notion of multiplicative risk apportionment has been defined by Wang and Li (2010) by means of similar lottery preferences. The notion of cross risk apportionment introduced by Eeckhoudt, Rey and Schlesinger (2007) and further studied in Jokung (2011) extends these concepts to the case of two attributes. The present paper aims to provide a unified approach to these closely related notions based on a bivariate model introduced in Denuit, Eeckhoudt and Rey (2010), allowing for a better understanding of changes in risk in the additive, multiplicative and 2-attribute cases. In this setting, it is shown that aversion to increasing the correlation parameter and the impact of initial wealth levels both lead to the different forms or risk apportionment.