Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Risk-taking-neutral background risks

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Risk-taking-neutral background risks / Guenter Franke, Harris Schlesinger, Richard C. Stapleton

Sumario: This article examines how decision making under uncertainty is affected by the presence of a linearly dependent background risk, for individuals with HARA utility. A linearly dependent background risk is a background risk that increases linearly in the chosen tradable outcome. In order to do this, we construct a parametric class of background risks that we label as risk-taking-neutral (RTN). These background risks have the property that they will not alter the decision made with respect to the market risk. As such, these RTN background risks provide a benchmark. In many situations, a background risk that is faced by an investor can be compared to one from the RTN class in order to predict qualitative changes in the investor's choice decision. As this benchmark is easily available, it is convenient to use to predict these changes

En: The Journal of risk and insurance. - Nueva York : The American Risk and Insurance Association, 1964- = ISSN 0022-4367. - 01/06/2018 Volumen 85 Número 2 - junio 2018 , p. 335-353

1. Gerencia de riesgos . 2. Toma de decisiones . 3. Percepción del riesgo . 4. Riesgo financiero . 5. Matemática financiera . I. Schlesinger, Harris . II. Stapleton, Richard C. . III. Título.