• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Chapter 3. The Theory of Risk and Risk Aversion
  • Beteiligte: Meyer, Jack [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: 2014
  • Erschienen in: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty ; (2014), Seite 99-133
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53685-3.00003-9
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  • Schlagwörter: Risk Aversion ; Increases in Risk ; Stochastic Dominance
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  • Beschreibung: 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.