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The Size of Background Risk and the Theory of Risk Bearing
We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the risk aversion of an agent’s derived utility function to increase with independent, zero-mean background risk. This condition is weaker than standard risk aversion. For small risks, the condition is that the ratio of the third to the first der
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