کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5077373 1374127 2008 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Insuring a risky investment project
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات آمار و احتمال
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Insuring a risky investment project
چکیده انگلیسی
In the standard model for insurance demand, the risk is totally exogenous and the insurance premium is paid for out of riskless wealth. This model yields results that are mostly in contradiction to everyday observation and have been used to question the pertinence of expected utility theory on which the model is based. For some years now, several papers have made attempts to provide foundations for a theory of insurance demand that leads to less provocative comparative statics results. In these papers, the risk for which coverage is sought becomes endogenous, and the decision to purchase insurance is made simultaneously with the decision on how much to invest in insurable assets. All these papers use a standard financial investment framework. This paper offers a contribution to this literature by using a slightly different framework: the case of a firm exposed to an insurable risk affecting return on a real investment project. The model is kept simple by using a two-state environment. It yields results that are both more complete and more general than results in previous work with the same motivation.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Insurance: Mathematics and Economics - Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 301-310
نویسندگان
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