Browsing by Subject "Risk aversion"

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    • Essays on risk aversion 
      Jindapon, Paan (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      This dissertation contains three essays on risk aversion. In the first essay, we an- alyze comparative risk aversion in a new way, through a comparative statics problem in which, for a cost, agents can shift from an initial ...
    • Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision 
      Denuit, Michel M.; Eeckhoudt, Louis; Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-03-26)
      Besides risk aversion, decision makers are often assumed to be downside risk averse. In order to investigate tradeoffs that downside risk averse decision makers face, this paper proposes five stochastic orders, each ...