Harris Schlesinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harris Schlesinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harris |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlesinger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLESINGER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Risk Measures and Attitudes
Risk has been described in the past by a simple measure, such as the variance, and risk attitude is often considered simply a degree of risk aversion. However, this viewpoint is usually not sufficient. Risk Measures and Attitudes collects contributions which illustrate how modern approaches to both risk measures and risk attitudes are inevitably intertwined. The settings under which this is discussed include portfolio choice, mitigating credit ri…
Risk Aversion in Rent‐Seeking and Rent‐Augmenting Games
The effects of risk aversion are examined for two types of expenditures in rent‐seeking contests: (a) Rent‐Seeking Expenditures, which improve the probability that the rent is obtained; and (b)) Rent‐Augmenting Expenditures, which increase the size of the rent to be awarded. Risk aversion is shown to reduce expenditures of type (b) unambiguously, while having an indeterminate effect on those of type (a). These two contrasting results are shown to…
Optimal Insurance in Incomplete Markets
This paper examines the theory of optimal insurance purchasing in the presence of uninsurable background risk. Existing theorems concerning the optimal level of insurance and the optimal form of an insurance contract are shown to hold only under restricted market and risk assumptions. In particular, conditions sufficient for the optimality of full coverage or sufficient for the optimality of deductible policies depend on the correlation between i…
Risk Aversion in Rent‐Seeking and Rent‐Augmenting Games
The effects of risk aversion are examined for two types of expenditures in rent‐seeking contests: (a) Rent‐Seeking Expenditures, which improve the probability that the rent is obtained; and (b)) Rent‐Augmenting Expenditures, which increase the size of the rent to be awarded. Risk aversion is shown to reduce expenditures of type (b) unambiguously, while having an indeterminate effect on those of type (a). These two contrasting results are shown to…
Optimal Insurance in Incomplete Markets
This paper examines the theory of optimal insurance purchasing in the presence of uninsurable background risk. Existing theorems concerning the optimal level of insurance and the optimal form of an insurance contract are shown to hold only under restricted market and risk assumptions. In particular, conditions sufficient for the optimality of full coverage or sufficient for the optimality of deductible policies depend on the correlation between i…
Optimal Insurance in Incomplete Markets
This paper examines the theory of optimal insurance purchasing in the presence of uninsurable background risk. Existing theorems concerning the optimal level of insurance and the optimal form of an insurance contract are shown to hold only under restricted market and risk assumptions. In particular, conditions sufficient for the optimality of full coverage or sufficient for the optimality of deductible policies depend on the correlation between i…
Risk Aversion in Rent‐Seeking and Rent‐Augmenting Games
The effects of risk aversion are examined for two types of expenditures in rent‐seeking contests: (a) Rent‐Seeking Expenditures, which improve the probability that the rent is obtained; and (b)) Rent‐Augmenting Expenditures, which increase the size of the rent to be awarded. Risk aversion is shown to reduce expenditures of type (b) unambiguously, while having an indeterminate effect on those of type (a). These two contrasting results are shown to…
Risk Measures and Attitudes
Risk has been described in the past by a simple measure, such as the variance, and risk attitude is often considered simply a degree of risk aversion. However, this viewpoint is usually not sufficient. Risk Measures and Attitudes collects contributions which illustrate how modern approaches to both risk measures and risk attitudes are inevitably intertwined. The settings under which this is discussed include portfolio choice, mitigating credit ri…
Economics (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Actuarial Sciences (1 works) · Applications of Mathematics (1 works) · Auction Theory and Applications (1 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (1 works) · Deductible (1 works) · Distribution (Probability theory) (1 works) · Econometrics (1 works)