This paper analyzes optimal prevention in a situation of multiple, possibly correlated risks. We focus on probability reduction (self-protection) so that correlation becomes endogenous. If prevention concerns only one risk, introducing a second exogenous risk increases the level of prevention...

This paper empirically assesses how financial risk aversion reacts to a change in individuals' wealth and health and to the presence of both financial and health risks using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Individuals in our sample exhibit financial risk aversion...

This paper shows that temperance is the highest order risk preferences condition for which spreading N independent and unfair risks provides the highest level of welfare than any other possible allocations of risks. These results are also interpreted through the concept of N-superadditivity of...

We provide a microeconomic analysis of the incentive and welfare effects of idiosyncratic return risk. While most of the existing literature has focused on risky returns as an aggregate shock, we allow for correlation between returns and the agent's non-financial endowment. Using a simple...