Wang, X. H.; Menezes, Carmen - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2002
This paper shows that the precautionary premium embodies a tradeoff between risk and downside risk. It is the size of a … mean-preserving spread for thish the strength of aversion to risk just offsets the strength of aversion to downside risk …. Using this result, decreasing absolute prudence can be interpreted as meaning that the amount of exposure to risk (as …