Comparative Statics Under Multiple Sources of Risk with Applications to Insurance Demand

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory - Tập 17 - Trang 21-33 - 1992
Georges Dionne1, Christian Gollier2
1Economics Department and Centre de recherche sur les transports, Université de Montréal, Montréal
2Finance Department, Groupe HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Tóm tắt

In this paper we propose an answer to the following problem of comparative statics in models with multiple sources of risk: How a risk averse agent will change his coinsurance demand when the distribution of the insurable loss is shifted? To answer the question, we first comment on Jack Meyer's results and then we show how an alternate approach leads to more definitive comparative statics.