On Cross-risk Vulnerability

Yannick Malevergne and Beatrice Rey ()

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Abstract: We introduce the notion of cross-risk vulnerability to generalize the concept of risk vulnerability introduced by Gollier and Pratt [Gollier, C., Pratt, J.W. 1996. Risk vulnerability and the tempering effect of background risk. Econometrica 64, 1109–1124]. While risk vulnerability captures the idea that the presence of an unfair financial background risk should make risk-averse individuals behave in a more risk-averse way with respect to an independent financial risk, cross-risk vulnerability extends this idea to the impact of a non-financial background risk on the financial risk. It provides an answer to the question of the impact of a background risk on the optimal coinsurance rate and on the optimal deductible level. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for a bivariate utility function to exhibit cross-risk vulnerability both toward an actuarially neutral background risk and toward an unfair background risk. We also analyze the question of the sub-additivity of risk premia and show to what extent cross-risk vulnerability provides an answer.

Keywords: Risk aversion; Risk vulnerability; Multivariate risk; Background risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10-01
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Published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2009, 45 (2), pp.224-229. ⟨10.1016/j.insmatheco.2009.06.002⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2009.06.002

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