Risk Measures from Risk-Reducing Experiments

Philippe Delquié ()
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Philippe Delquié: The George Washington University School of Business, Washington, DC 20052

Decision Analysis, 2012, vol. 9, issue 2, 96-102

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of risk-reducing experiments as a basis for designing risk measures. A risk-reducing experiment provides the option to mitigate the impact of less favorable outcomes in a gamble, and the gamble's risk is measured as the increase in value brought about by such an experiment. Two examples are presented, including one based on the concept of expected value of perfect information. Both examples yield familiar risk measures, and extensions of them are discussed. A risk measure derived from a risk-reducing experiment makes explicit the sense in which the riskiness of a gamble is captured. Risk-reducing experiments offer a new approach for conceiving, or choosing among, risk measures.

Keywords: risk measures; stochastic orderings; value of information; Gini's mean difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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