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The Generalized Arrow-Pratt Coefficient

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A vector-valued generalized Arrow-Pratt (GAP) coefficients is defined for a utility defined on a Hilbert outcome space. Given risk averse, increasing and twice differentiable utilities on such outcome spaces, comparisons of their risk aversion using GAP coefficients are congruent to comparisons using well-founded decision-theoretic criteria. The Hilbert space setting admits risks embodied in a significant class of random processes, especially second-order processes. We also provide a theoretically well-founded and computationally tractable method for estimating the realized GAP coefficient from observed data when the outcome space is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space

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  • Sudhir A. Shah, 2016. "The Generalized Arrow-Pratt Coefficient," Working Papers id:10795, eSocialSciences.
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