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Another tale of two tails: On characterizations of comparative risk

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Alfred Mueller

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We characterize the classes of utility functions that are consistent with different notions of mean preserving spreads introduced in the literature. This gives rise to a unified approach and extension of some definitions of increasing risk, including the concepts of Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970) and Landsberger and Meilijson (1990a). The main idea is to restrict the possible mean preserving spreads to an arbitrary subset.

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Paper provided by Risk and Insurance Archive in its series Working Papers with number 025.

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Keywords: increasing risk stochastic dominance mean preserving spreads classes of utility functions

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  1. Alfred Mueller, 1996. "Comparing Risks with Unbounded Distributions," Working Papers 026, Risk and Insurance Archive. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Rothschild, Michael & Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1971. "Increasing risk II: Its economic consequences," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 66-84, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Diamond, Peter A. & Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1974. "Increases in risk and in risk aversion," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 337-360, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Rothschild, Michael & Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1970. "Increasing risk: I. A definition," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 2(3), pages 225-243, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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