Paper 4, Section II, J
In a two-period model, two agents enter a negotiation at time 0 . Agent knows that he will receive a random payment at time , where the joint distribution of is known to both agents, and . At the outcome of the negotiation, there will be an agreed risk transfer random variable which agent 1 will pay to agent 2 at time 1 . The objective of agent 1 is to maximize , and the objective of agent 2 is to maximize , where the functions are strictly increasing, strictly concave, , and have the properties that
Show that, unless there exists some such that
the risk transfer could be altered to the benefit of both agents, and so would not be the conclusion of the negotiation.
Show that, for given , the relation determines a unique risk transfer , and that is a function of .