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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.10.47

The Efforts of Self-Insurance-cum-Protection Activity in a Two-Period Model  

Hong, Ji-Min (Department of Business Administration, The Catholic University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.10, 2019 , pp. 47-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the effects of risk aversion on the Self-Insurance-cum-Protection activity (SICP) in a two period model, which is in contrast to existing studies that focused on an one period model. The assumption that there is a time difference between making an effort and incurring loss helps examine the effects of risk aversion in the long-term period. An increase in risk aversion always increases the efforts of SICP, whereas existing studies require additional restrictions to both the loss and cost function. Second, an increase in risk aversion always increases the efforts on self-insurance and self-protection. This result is in contrast to that of existing studies in that an increase in risk aversion increases the efforts of self-insurance, whereas the effects on the efforts of self-protection are unclear. Lastly, when there exists a background risk with zero mean and risk aversion increases in a two period model, the prudence condition of the utility function is a sufficient condition to increase the efforts of SICP.
Keywords
Risk Aversion; Self-Insurance-Cum-Protection; Self-Protection; Self-Insurance; 2-Period Model;
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