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which is strictly increasing in the second argument. Then we have<strong>and</strong> hence,(∫V (c, a) = W(c, u −1 ◦ φ −1Ŵ (c, ζ(z)) = W (c, u −1 ◦ φ −1 (z)), (42)φL(∫Let v = φ ◦ u. We obtain representation (18).C2. Extension to the Whole Domainu(V (c ′ , a ′ ))dl(c ′ , a ′ )C×∆(L))))da(l) .Define V s t : C × ∆(H) by:V s t(c, p) = V (c, a), (43)for each (c, p) ∈ C × ∆(H), where a ∈ ∆(L) is such that (c, p) ∼ s t(c, a). The existenceof such a risk equivalent a follows from Lemma 9, Dynamic Consistency, compactness of C,<strong>and</strong> continuity of ≽ s tderive:(see Lemma 9 in Hayashi (2005)). Using definition (43) <strong>and</strong> (37), weV s t(c, p) = V (c, a) = Ŵ (c, V (ĉ, m)) = Ŵ (c, V st(ĉ, p)). (44)Our axioms B1, B4, B5 <strong>and</strong> B7 when restricted to ∆(H +1 ) satisfies the conditions inTheorem 4.2 in Seo (2009).By this theorem, V s t(ĉ, ·) restricted to ∆(H +1 ) is ordinallyequivalent to a second-order subjective expected utility representation, <strong>and</strong> hence has theform:<strong>and</strong>∫U s t(h +1 ) =(∫)V s t(ĉ, p +1 ) = ζ s t U s t(h +1 )dp +1 (h +1 ) , (45)H +1P s tφ s t( ∑s∈S∫)π(s) û s t(c ′ , a ′ )dh +1 (s)(c ′ , a ′ ) dµ s t(π), (46)C×∆(L)where ζ s t <strong>and</strong> φ s t are strictly increasing functions <strong>and</strong> û s t is a v-NM index. By Axiom B6(Dynamic Consistency) <strong>and</strong> a similar argument in Appendix A1, û s tequivalent over C × ∆(L). Thus, there is a monotone transformation u s tfor every (c ′ , a ′ ) ∈ C × ∆(L).<strong>and</strong> V are ordinallysuch that:û s t(c ′ , a ′ ) = u s t(V (c ′ , a ′ )), (47)Equations (38) <strong>and</strong> (43) imply that on ∆(L),(∫ )(∫)ζ U(l)da(l) = V (ĉ, a) = V s t(ĉ, a) = ζ s t U s t(l)da(l) ,LL45

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