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Recursive Preferences, Correlation Aversion, and the Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty

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This paper investigates a novel behavioral feature exhibited by recursive preferences: aversion to risks that are persistent through time. I introduce a formal notion of correlation aversion to capture this phenomenon and provide a characterization based on risk attitudes. Furthermore, correlation averse preferences admit a specific variational representation, which connects correlation aversion to fear of model misspecification. These findings imply that correlation aversion is the main driver in many applications of recursive preferences such as asset pricing, climate policy, and optimal fiscal policy.

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  • Lorenzo Maria Stanca, 2023. "Recursive Preferences, Correlation Aversion, and the Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty," Papers 2304.04599, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2023.
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