Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32163 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CoFE Discussion Paper No. 05/08
Publisher: 
University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE), Konstanz
Abstract: 
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.
JEL: 
D52
D81
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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