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Title: | Weak measurability and characterizations of risk | Authors: | Ali Khan, M. Sun, Y. |
Keywords: | Bochner integrability Decomposition Large games Law of large numbers Pettis integrability Weak measurability |
Issue Date: | 1999 | Citation: | Ali Khan, M.,Sun, Y. (1999). Weak measurability and characterizations of risk. Economic Theory 13 (3) : 541-560. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | In the context of a continuum of random variables, arising, for example, as rates of return in financial markets with a continuum of assets, or as individual responses in games with a continuum of players, an important economic issue is to show how idiosyncratic risk can be removed through some device of aggregation or diversification when such risk is explicitly introduced into the model. In this paper, we use recent work of Al-Najjar [1] as a general backdrop to provide a review of the basic issues involved when the continuum is formulated as the Lebesgue interval. We present two examples to argue that the fundamental problem of the non-measurability of sample functions, originally identified by Doob, and further elaborated by Feldman, Gilles and Judd in the economic literature, simply cannot be bypassed by reinterpretations of standard results. We also provide an equivalence result in the spirit of Al-Najjar's efforts; but argue that this elementary result does not go beyond the standard law of large numbers for a sequence of real-valued iid random variables, and as such, is incapable of yielding anything of substantive economic interest beyond this law. | Source Title: | Economic Theory | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/104467 | ISSN: | 09382259 |
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