dc.contributor.author | Menezes, Carmen F. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, X. H. (X. Henry), 1962- | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Recent empirical research has established that the distributions of a wide range of economic variables are kurtotic in that they have higher peak(s) in the neighborhood of the mean and greater elongation in the tails than the normal distribution. This paper provides a formal characterization of the empirically significant notions of kurtotic distributions by formulating the concept of outer risk. An increase in outer risk corresponds to a dispersion transfer from the center of a distribution to its tails. In terms of the relocation of probability mass, such a dispersion transfer accentuates the peak(s) of the distribution and elongates its tails. It is shown that ordering distributions by outer risk is equivalent to the ordering of distributions resulting from unanimous choice by all individuals whose utility function has a negative fourth derivative. | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | Department of Economics, 2004 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/2650 | eng |
dc.publisher | Department of Economics | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | Economics publications | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri-Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Economics | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working papers (Department of Economics);WP 04-13 | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.source.uri | http://economics.missouri.edu/working-papers/2004/wp0413_menezes_wang.pdf | eng |
dc.subject | outer risk | eng |
dc.subject | outer risk aversion | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Distribution (Economic theory) | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Risk -- Mathematical models | eng |
dc.title | Increasing Outer Risk | eng |
dc.type | Working Paper | eng |