Abstract
Background risk refers to a risk that is exogenous and is not subject to transformations by a decision-maker. In this paper, we extend the definition of the Rothschild-Stiglitz type of increasing risk to a background risk framework. We theoretically investigate a more general definition of increase in risk in the presence of background risk. The results suggest that an extended concept of expectation dependence plays a vital role.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 144-149 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Insurance: Mathematics and Economics |
| Volume | 70 |
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| State | Published - Sep 1 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Economics and Econometrics
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty