Abstract
Higher-order risk attitudes other than risk aversion (e.g., prudence and temperance) play vital roles both in theoretical and empirical work. While the literature has mainly focused on how they entail a preference for combining “good” outcomes with “bad” outcomes, We consider here an alternative approach which relates higher-order risk attitudes to the sign of correlation. The theoretical result in this paper proposes new insights into economic and financial applications such as risk aversion in the presence of another risk, bivariate stochastic dominance and justifying the first-order approach to moral hazard principal-agent problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 6 Aug 2013 |
| Event | 2013 American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting - Washington Court Hotel, Washington, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2013 → 7 Aug 2013 http://www.aria.org/meetings/2013_annual_meeting.html |
Conference
| Conference | 2013 American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Washington |
| Period | 4/08/13 → 7/08/13 |
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Keywords
- higher-order risk attitudes
- stochastic dominance dependence
- correlation
- covariance