Duality mappings for the theory of risk aversion with vector outcomes

Sudhir A. Shah
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Sudhir A. Shah: Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India

No 160, Working papers from Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Abstract: We consider a decision-making environment with an outcome space that is a convex and compact subset of a vector space belonging to a general class of such spaces. Given this outcome space, we de¯ne gen- eral classes of (a) risk averse von Neumann-Morgenstern utility func- tions de¯ned over the outcome space, (b) multi-valued mappings that yield the certainty equivalent outcomes corresponding to a lottery, (c) multi-valued mappings that yield the risk premia corresponding to a lottery, and (d) multi-valued mappings that yield the acceptance set of lotteries corresponding to an outcome. Our duality results establish that the usual mappings that generate (b), (c) and (d) from (a) are bi- jective. We apply these results to the problem of computing the value of ¯nancial assets to a risk averse decision-maker and show that this value will always be less than the arbitrage-free valuation.

Keywords: Risk aversion; vector outcomes; certainty equivalence; risk premia; acceptance set (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 D01 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2007-08
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