Increases in skewness and three-moment preferences

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• 作者：Thomas Eichner^a ; ^{thomas.eichner@fernuni-hagen.de} ; Andreas Wagener^b ; ^{wagener@sopo.uni-hannover.de}
• 关键词：Mean ; Variance ; Skewness ; Skewness affinity
• 刊名：Mathematical Social Sciences
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：March 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：61
• 期：2
• 页码：109-113
• 全文大小：223 K

文摘

We call an agent skewness affine if and only if his marginal willingness to accept a risk increases when the distribution of the risk becomes more skewed to the right. Skewness affinity is shown to be equivalent to the marginal rate of substitution between mean and variance of wealth being decreasing in the skewness. This property allows us to characterize the comparative static effect of increases in the skewness in quasi-linear decision problems. Over domains of skewness-comparable lotteries skewness affinity is equivalent to the von Neumann–Morgenstern utility index of relative temperance being smaller than three.