We study a commons problem under uncertainty, where individual actions affect the risk of a future damage event. We … show that for risk-averse agents, an extra risk on the amount of the damage induces more precautionary actions in Nash … equilibrium. Similarly, for prudent agents an extra risk in all states of the world induces more precautionary actions in Nash …

nature. The existence of such state-dependent indivisible consumption opportunities influences a person's risk attitudes. In … general, people are not risk averse anymore even if utility from divisible consumption is concave. I propose a definition of … same reasons that rule out risk aversion turn out to be the basis of a desire to insure.This calls into question the …

and on the literature of imperfectly divisible consumption to argue that the general purpose of insurance is not a risk … transfer, but meeting a conditional need. In this way, insurance aligns the risk in one's ftnancial endowment with the risk in …