Sudhir A. Shah (Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India)
Abstract
We consider a decision-making environment with an outcome space that is a convex and compact subset of a vector space belonging to a general class of such spaces. Given this outcome space, we de¯ne gen- eral classes of (a) risk averse von Neumann-Morgenstern utility func- tions de¯ned over the outcome space, (b) multi-valued mappings that yield the certainty equivalent outcomes corresponding to a lottery, (c) multi-valued mappings that yield the risk premia corresponding to a lottery, and (d) multi-valued mappings that yield the acceptance set of lotteries corresponding to an outcome. Our duality results establish that the usual mappings that generate (b), (c) and (d) from (a) are bi- jective. We apply these results to the problem of computing the value of ¯nancial assets to a risk averse decision-maker and show that this value will always be less than the arbitrage-free valuation.
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