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How Bonus Deferral Changes Risk Taking

Dietmar Leisen

subject

Actuarial scienceRisk aversionValue (economics)EconomicsAsset (economics)DeferralRisk taking

description

We characterize continuous-time risk taking and show that the introduction of deferral increases risk taking at any time when the realized asset value is large or small. For realized asset values in-between we derive the parameterizations of deferral for which risk taking decreases and discuss trade-offs in setting the deferral parameters.

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1662555