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(Extra credit) In class we talked about how the Arrow-Pratt coefficient of ab ...
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(Extra credit) In class we talked about how the Arrow-Pratt coefficient of absolute risk aversion can be thought of as proportional to the insurance premium that an expected utility maximizer would be willing to pay to completely avoid a small, mean zero risk. Mathematically, we could write this insight the following way: E[u(w+?~)]=u(w??) where u is the agent's Bernoulli utility function, w is their wealth level, ? is the insurance premium/willingness to pay to avoid ?~, and ?~ is mean-zero risk (i.e. ?~ is a random variable with E[?~]=0). Prove that for small ?~,r(w)=?u??(w)/u?(w) is proportional to ?. What is the constant of proportionality for this relationship? [Hint: start by taking the secondorder Taylor expansion of the equation above].