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Which Shape for the Cost Curve of Risk?

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  • Eeckhoudt, L.
  • Gollier, C.

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It is often suggested that the larger the size of risk, the larger our willingness to pay (WTP) for a given reduction of this risk. We show that this is not true in general in the expected utility model. We examine under which conditions the WTP for a marginal reduction in the size of risk is increasing. We also examine the closely related question of whether the risk premium is superadditive in the size of risk.

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  • Eeckhoudt, L. & Gollier, C., 1998. "Which Shape for the Cost Curve of Risk?," Papers 98.490, Toulouse - GREMAQ.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:gremaq:98.490
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    1. Malevergne, Y. & Rey, B., 2009. "On cross-risk vulnerability," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(2), pages 224-229, October.
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    3. Christophe Courbage & Henri Loubergé & Béatrice Rey, 2018. "On the properties of high-order non-monetary measures for risks," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, Springer;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 43(1), pages 77-94, May.
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    6. Hailin Sun & Sanxi Li & Tong Wang, 2013. "Assortative Matching and Risk Sharing," University of East Anglia Applied and Financial Economics Working Paper Series 041, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    7. Marika Cabral & Mark R. Cullen, 2016. "Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance," NBER Working Papers 22583, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Christophe Courbage, 2001. "On Bivariate Risk Premia," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 29-34, February.
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    10. Francisco Vázquez & Richard Watt, 2002. "The price of risk with incomplete knowledge on the utility function ," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 271-287, November.
    11. Hailin Sun & Sanxi Li & Tong Wang, 2013. "Change in risk and bargaining game," University of East Anglia Applied and Financial Economics Working Paper Series 036, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..

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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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