Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This paper defines decreasing absolute risk aversion in purely behavioral terms without any assumption of differentiability and shows that a strictly increasing and risk averse utility function with decreasing absolute risk aversion is necessarily differentiable with an absolutely continuous derivative.A risk averse utility function has decreasing absolute risk aversion if and only if it has a decreasing absolute risk aversion density, and if and only if the cumulative absolute risk aversion function is increasing and concave.This leads to a characterization of all such utility functions.Analogues of these results also hold for increasing absolute and for increasing and decreasing relative risk aversion.
Authors: Pirtea Marilen, Boţoc Claudiu
Institution: West University of Timişoara
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1499475563