Individual risk and Lebesgue extension without aggregate uncertainty
Many economic models include random shocks imposed on a large number (continuum) of economic agents with individual risk. In this context, an exact law of large numbers and its converse is presented in [Y.N. Sun, The exact law of large numbers via Fubini extension and characterization of insurable risks, J. Econ. Theory 126 (2006) 31-69] to characterize the cancellation of individual risk via aggregation. However, it is well known that the Lebesgue unit interval is not suitable for modeling a continuum of agents in the particular setting. The purpose of this paper is to show that an extension of the Lebesgue unit interval does work well as an agent space with various desirable properties associated with individual risk.
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2009
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Authors: | Sun, Yeneng ; Zhang, Yongchao |
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Journal of Economic Theory. - Elsevier, ISSN 0022-0531. - Vol. 144.2009, 1, p. 432-443
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | No aggregate uncertainty Independence Exact law of large numbers Fubini extension Lebesgue measure |
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