The economics of risk sharing in discrete time with translation invariant recursive utility

Knut Aase

No 2025/15, Discussion Papers from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science

Abstract: We consider optimal risk sharing in a dynamic setting, where agents have preferences represented by translation invariant recursive utility. This model has some appealing features, both compared to the scale invariant one and to the standard model with expected utility. First, the model allows for a treatment of heterogeneous preferences. This leads to extensions in more realistic directions of the standard, one-period risk sharing model. Second, the new endogenous variable entering the state price deflator is a traded security, an annuity, while in the scale invariant model the corresponding variable is the agent’s wealth. The model invites for a closer look at the mutuality principle in syndicates and optimal risk sharing in society. We also embed a stock market in our setting and derive a consumption based capital asset pricing model.

Keywords: Recursive utility; translation invariant model; utility gradients; optimal risk sharing; CCAPM; optimal risk sharing; the mutuality principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D51 D53 D90 E21 G10 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2025-05-09
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