Hara, Chiaki and Huang, James and Kuzmics, Christoph (2011) Effects of background risks on cautiousness with an application to a portfolio choice problem. Journal of Economic Theory, 146 (1). pp. 346-358. ISSN 0022-0531
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2010.08.005
Abstract
We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on an individual's expected utility function under which any zero-mean idiosyncratic risk increases cautiousness (the derivative of the reciprocal of the absolute risk aversion), which is the key determinant for this individual's demand for options and portfolio insurance.
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Journal of Economic Theory
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11 Jul 2011 18:33
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