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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 propor???????

(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: where is the agent's Bernoulli utility function, 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 . Prove that for small is proportional to . What is the constant of proportionality for this relationship? [Hint: start by taking the secondorder Taylor expansion of the equation above].


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To prove that for small ?, r(w) = -u''(w)/u'(w) is proportional to ?, we will start by taking the second-order Taylor expansion of the equation E[u(w+
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