Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …

Do the choices of consumers who search for a product's best price exhibit risk neutral, risk averse or loss averse risk … pay for continued search and the level of price uncertainty depends on her risk preferences. Independent of the current … best price, an increase in price uncertainty encourages continued search when consumers are risk neutral. However, we prove …

and on the literature of imperfectly divisible consumption to argue that the general purpose of insurance is not a risk … transfer, but meeting a conditional need. In this way, insurance aligns the risk in one's ftnancial endowment with the risk in …