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Incremental Risk Vulnerability

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Appendix 1

Proof of Proposition 1

From the definition of r(w),


r( w ) =


Ey [-u "( W )]
Ey [ u, ( W )]


(6)


we have the following condition. For any distribution of y and for any s0,

∂r(w)/∂s > [=][<] 0 <⇒ f (w,y,s) > [=][<] 0,                  (7)

where f (w,y,s) is defined as

f (w,y,s) Ey [∆(y) {-u"'(W) - u"(W)^(w)}] .                  (8)

Necessity

We now show that

f (w,y,s) > [=][<] 0=

u'"(W2) - u"'(W1 ) < [=][>] -r(W) [u"(W2) - u"(W1)] ,W1 W W2

Consider a background risk with three possible outcomes, y0, y 1, and y2, such that
y 1 < y0 < y2 and ∆(y 1) < ∆(y0) = 0 < ∆(y2). Define

Wi = w + yi + s∆(yi),   i = 0, 1, 2,

and let qi denote the probability of the outcome yi. For the special case of such a risk,
equation (8) can be written as

f (w,y,s) = q 1∆(y 1)| {-u'"(W2) + u111 (W1 ) - [u"(W2) - u"(W1)]^(w)}        (9)

since


2

E [∆( y )]= £q i ∆( y i) = 0

i=0



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