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1 L12 Uncertainty

2 Three Applications Model with real endowments 1. Labor Supply
(Labor-Leisure Choice) 2. Intertemporal Choice (Consumption-Savings Choice) 3. Uncertainty (Insurance) (Consumption across states of the world)

3 Uncertainty Two States of the world: no rain and rain Probabilities
Goods: consumption Endowment: wealth in two states Possibility of insurance

4 Budget Constraint

5 Uncertainty and Lotteries

6 Translation: (“as if” markets)

7 Expected value Lottery (random variable)
Expected value: average payment Examples

8 Preferences and Utility
Uncertainty – special preferences Bernoulli utility function Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility (Expected utility)

9 Risk attitudes Example 1: Example 2: Example 3:

10 Indifference curves

11 Marginal Rate of Substitution

12 Choice of Insurance

13 Fair vs. not fair Insurance
Why? Free Entry and Law of Large Numbers

14 Fair Insurance

15 Not Fair Insurance When Insurance is not fair
In optimum: (First secret of happiness)


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