It has been shown at different levels of generality that under increasing risk aversion utility indifference sell prices of a contingent claim converge to the super-replication price and the shortfalls of utility maximizing hedging portfolios starting from the superreplication price tend to zero in L1. In this paper we give an example of a one-period financial model with bounded prices where ut...

In this paper we provide estimates of the coefficient of relative risk aversion using information on selfreports of subjective personal well-being from three datasets: the Gallup World Poll, the European Social Survey, and the World Values Survey. We additionally consider the implications of allowing for health state dependence in the utility function on estimates of risk aversion and examine h...

In the discounted expected utility model, risk aversion is fully determined by deterministic intertemporal choice. General recursive preferences like KrepsPorteus and Epstein-Zin-Weil preferences resolve this short-coming. These preferences are widely used in finance because they capture the spread between safe and risky returns significantly better than the discounted expected utility model (e...

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The linear plus exponential utility function has received increasing attention of late as a particularly attractive family for evaluating additive gambles for wealth. In addition to its ability to reflect increasing appreciation for money, risk aversion, and decreasing risk aversion, it is consistent with a risk-return representation in which return is measured by expected value. In this paper ...

An axiomatic characterization of recursive utility with source-dependent constant relative risk aversion (CRRA), constant elasticity of intertemporal substitution, constant rate of impatience and subjective beliefs is established. The utility form is a minimal extension of Epstein-Zin-Weil utility that allows the CRRA to depend on the source of risk, a dependence that admits an ambiguity aversi...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis regarding strategic interaction under expectation-based loss-aversion. First, we develop a coherent framework for the analysis by extending the equilibrium concepts of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007) to strategic interaction and demonstrate how to derive equilibria. Second, we delineate how expectation-based loss-averse players differ in their strateg...

We provide the first systematic study of the robustness of parameter estimates for the Fehr-Schmidt (1999) model of inequity aversion with respect to (i) the occurrence of efficiency concerns; (ii) the scale of payoffs; and (iii) the game used (i.e., cross-game consistency). Moreover, we provide evidence of a bias in the estimates that occurs if one does not correct for strategic considerations...

We revisit the well-known result that asserts that an increase in the degree of one’s risk aversion improves the position of one’s opponents. To this end, we apply Yaari’s dual theory of choice under risk both to Nash’s bargaining problem and to Rubinstein’s game of alternating offers. Under this theory, unlike under expected utility, risk aversion influences the bargaining outcome only when th...

We study a risk-averse newsvendor problem with quantity competition and price competition. Under the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) criterion, we characterize the optimal quantity and pricing decisions under both quantity and price competition. For quantity competition, we consider two demand splitting rules, namely proportional demand allocation and demand reallocation. Although competition ...