General polygyny -- near universal marriage and polygyny -- is common in Africa. But why would men marry n wives for 1/n:th of the time instead of monogamously? Downsides include prolonged bachelorhood and a high degree of step-parenting. We point to the African slave trade which...

We study dynamic monetary risk measures thatdepend on bounded discrete-time processesdescribing the evolution of financial values. The time horizoncan be finite or infinite. We call a dynamic risk measuretime-consistent if it assigns to a process of financialvalues the same risk irrespective of...