| Alain Chateauneuf, CERMSEM, Universite Paris I Jean-Marc Tallon, Universite Paris 1 |
| Diversification, Convex Preferences and Non-Empty Core |
| Session: C-6-6 Sunday 13 August 2000 by Tallon, Jean-Marc |
| We show, in the Choquet expected utility model, that preference for diversification, that is, convex preferences, is equivalent to a concave utility index and a convex capacity. We then introduce a weaker notion of diversification, namely ``sure diversification.'' We show that this implies that the core of the capacity is non-empty. The converse holds under concavity of the utility index. This property is shown to be equivalent to the notion of comonotone diversification\,; notion that we introduce in the paper. Finally, in the expected utility model, all these notions of diversification are equivalent and are represented by the concavity of the utility index. |
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