Crainich, Eeckhoudt, and Trannoy (2013) show that mixed risk lovers are prudent. I show that common risk loving utility functions may not exhibit mixed risk loving??as is typical for risk aversion and mixed risk aversion??and thus these traits should be carefully distinguished. In particular,...

Die Bundesregierung entwickelt derzeit die Deutsche ⁠Anpassungsstrategie⁠ aus dem Jahr 2008 zu einer neuen, vorsorgenden ⁠Anpassungsstrategie⁠ an den ⁠Klimawandel⁠ weiter. Mit dem "Dialog KlimaAnpassung- Leben im Klimawandel gemeinsam meistern" wurden im Herbst 2023 zum einen...

Prudence is widely known for inducing precautionary saving behavior. This paper revisits this important implication by introducing the notions of first-order and second-order prudence. Within smooth expected utility (EU), prudence is second-order. In that case, the presence of a small,...

We propose a new asset pricing model which generalizes the mean-variance framework by including probability weighting, specifically the overweighting of rare, high-impact events. Our model—the Π-CAPM—allows for disentangling volatility and skewness effects and predicts that idiosyncratic...

This article gives a comprehensive treatment of preferences regarding time risk—the risk of something happening sooner or later—within the expected discounted utility model. We characterize the signs of the discount function’s derivatives of all orders and show how these signs are decisive...

Risk aversion — but also the higher-order risk preferences of prudence and temperance — are fundamental concepts in the study of economic decision making. We propose a method to jointly measure the intensity of risk aversion, prudence, and temperance. Our theoretical approach is to define...