• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Chapter 3. The Theory of Risk and Risk Aversion
  • Contributor: Meyer, Jack [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: 2014
  • Published in: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty ; (2014), Seite 99-133
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53685-3.00003-9
  • ISBN: 9780444536860; 0444536868
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  • Keywords: Risk Aversion ; Increases in Risk ; Stochastic Dominance
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  • Description: Risk and risk aversion are important concepts when modeling how to choose from or rank a set of random variables. This chapter reviews and summarizes the definitions and related findings concerning risk aversion and risk in both a mean-variance and an expected utility decision model context.