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Vigilant measures of risk and the demand for contingent claims

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We examine a class of utility maximization problems with a non-necessarily law-invariant utility, and with a non-necessarily law-invariant risk measure constraint. Under a consistency requirement on the risk measure that we call Vigilance, we show the existence of optimal contingent claims, and we show that such optimal contingent claims exhibit a desired monotonicity property. Vigilance is satisfied by a large class of risk measures, including all distortion risk measures and some classes of robust risk measures. As an illustration, we consider a problem of optimal insurance design where the premium principle satisfies the vigilance property, hence covering a large collection of commonly used premium principles, including premium principles that are not law-invariant. We show the existence of optimal indemnity schedules, and we show that optimal indemnity schedules are nondecreasing functions of the insurable loss.

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  • Ghossoub, Mario, 2015. "Vigilant measures of risk and the demand for contingent claims," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 27-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:insuma:v:61:y:2015:i:c:p:27-35
    DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2014.11.009
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    Utility maximization; Optimal insurance design; Choquet integral; Distorted probabilities; Monotone Likelihood Ratio;
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    • C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics
    • D89 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Other
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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