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In this paper, ambiguity aversion to uncertain survival probabilities is introduced in a life-cycle model with a bequest motive to study the optimal demand for annuities. Provided that annuities return is sufficiently large, and notably when it is fair, positive annuitization is known to be...
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assets with short-selling where there is risk and ambiguity. Agents have Bewley's incomplete preferences. As an inertia … risk adjusted sets of probabilities intersect. The more risk averse, the more ambiguity averse the agents, the more likely …
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We investigate the empirical relation between ambiguity aversion, risk aversion and portfolio choices. We match … administrative panel data on portfolio choices with survey data on preferences over ambiguity and risk. We report three main findings … portfolio in a contrarian direction relative to the market. Accordingly, their exposure to risk is more stable over time. Third …
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This chapter of a collective book aims at presenting the basics of decision making under risk. We first define notions … of risk and increasing risk and recall definitions and classifications (that are valid independently of any … representation) of behavior under risk. We then review the classical model of expected utility due to von Neumann and Morgenstern …
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, which allow to take into account observed behaviors as in Allais' paradox under risk or Ellsberg's paradox under uncertainty … uncertainty, and Quiggin and Yaari under risk, succeeded to characterize preferences which generalize the EU model, by means of a … for more diversified patterns of behavior under uncertainty as well under risk. …
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The theory of existence of equilibrium with short-selling is reconsidered under risk and ambiguity modelled by risk … of the risk adjusted sets of expectations overlap. This condition is necessary if agents are not risk neutral at extreme … compatible trades, with non negative expected value with respect to any risk adjusted prior, strictly positive for some agent and …
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In France, people obtain basic health insurance coverage through a public health insurance system. Although public … increasingly dependant on private complementary health insurance, to be better reimbursed. In the context of strengthened … several implications for the regulation of private health insurance. Starting in the early 2000s, public policies have …
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The advent of the Internal Model Approval Process within Solvency II and the desirability of many insurance companies … to gain approval has increased the importance of some topics such as risk aggregation in determining overall economic … risks that represent usually an important part of an insurer risk profile. We then calculate the economic capital needed to …
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applied on each unit of risk. According to European Commission (2007), European insurance and Reinsurance Federation (2008 …), and Chief Risk Officer Forum (2008), a single cost-of-capital rate shall be used by all insurance undertakings and for all … and a market value margin measuring the cost of risk. The market value margin is calculated as the present value of the …
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exponential affine function of the state variables, the risk neutral distribution is unique and implies again a Generalized …
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