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Glossary:Risk premium

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-In general terms, risk premium is the difference between the certainty equivalent (from a decision tree using a utility function) and the expected value of the original (value laden) tree.

-In a financial context, risk premium is the additional financial return which shareholders expect to be earned in order to compensate for taking additional risk.