Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69526 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4070
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with a RTN background risk. We use this methodology to prove and extend a well-known theorem about dynamic investment strategy, due to Mossin (1968a). We also use this methodology to analyze investment behavior in the presence of an income tax as well as to analyze investment behavior in the presence of particular types of background risks.
Subjects: 
background risk
HARA utility
income tax
portfolio choice
risk vulnerability
JEL: 
D81
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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