Multidimensional Risk Made Easy
理论经济学
2026-07-01 v1 概率论
摘要
Suppose we want to assign a certainty equivalent--one number--to a multivariate risk. Which such assignments are law-invariant, monotone with respect to vector stochastic dominance, and invariant to independent background risk? I show that every such certainty equivalent is a positive mixture of scalar entropic certainty equivalents applied to positive projections of the vector risk. The same representation yields a robust-order characterization: unanimity across such certainty equivalents is equivalent, up to closure, to dominance after adding independent multidimensional background risk. In a social-welfare specialization, the corresponding shadow valuations are welfare weights.
引用
@article{arxiv.2607.01229,
title = {Multidimensional Risk Made Easy},
author = {Mark Whitmeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01229},
year = {2026}
}