Individual risk and Lebesgue extension without aggregate uncertainty

Yeneng Sun () and Yongchao Zhang ()

Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, vol. 144, issue 1, 432-443

Abstract: Many economic models include random shocks imposed on a large number (continuum) of economic agents with individual risk. In this context, an exact law of large numbers and its converse is presented in [Y.N. Sun, The exact law of large numbers via Fubini extension and characterization of insurable risks, J. Econ. Theory 126 (2006) 31-69] to characterize the cancellation of individual risk via aggregation. However, it is well known that the Lebesgue unit interval is not suitable for modeling a continuum of agents in the particular setting. The purpose of this paper is to show that an extension of the Lebesgue unit interval does work well as an agent space with various desirable properties associated with individual risk.

Keywords: No; aggregate; uncertainty; Independence; Exact; law; of; large; numbers; Fubini; extension; Lebesgue; measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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