Axiomatic risk sharing and capital allocation

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Authors
Publication date 03-2025
Journal Insurance: Mathematics & Economics
Volume | Issue number 121
Pages (from-to) 133-143
Number of pages 11
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
Abstract
We aim to share risky endowments among finitely many agents, subject to liquidity constraints. We axiomatically characterize baseline solutions, which use a baseline vector of fixed contributions and a rationing method. We propose a general fairness condition, that uniquely determines these fixed contributions. The fairness condition is flexible enough to allow for the use of any capital allocation rule. One rule stands out as a K-fair solution: the one implied by the constrained egalitarian rationing rule. It is the unique rule satisfying a lower bound on taking part of the risk, a composition property, and null consistency. Furthermore, we provide two more characterizations of this rule; one based on local symmetry and one based on minimax expected contributions under truncation.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2025.01.005
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