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Calculation of Price Equilibria for Utility Functions of the HARA Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2014

Markus Lienhard
Markus Lienhard*
Affiliation:
Université de Lausanne
*
Université de Lausanne, HEC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Abstract

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We explicitly calculate price equilibria for power and logarithmic utility functions which—together with the exponential utility functions—form the so-called HARA (Hyperbolic Absolute Risk Aversion) class.

A price equilibrium is economically admissible in the market which is a closed system. Furthermore it is on the one side individually optimal for each participant of the market (in the sense of maximal expected utility), on the other side it is a Pareto optimum and thus collectively optimal for the market as a whole.

Keywords

Risk exchangePrice equilibriumUtility functionPareto optimalityRisk aversion
Type
Astin Competition 1985: Prize-Winning Papers and Other Selected Papers
Information
ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 16 , Issue S1 , April 1986 , pp. S91 - S97
Copyright
Copyright © International Actuarial Association 1986

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