Mixed risk aversion (Caballe and Pomansky, 1996) defines the class of increasing utility functions that have derivatives alternating in sign, with positive odd derivatives and negative even derivatives. In this article, we characterize comparative mixed risk aversion so as to answer the...

[fre] Cet article vise à déterminer comment le recours aux tests diagnostiques peut affecter la demande de prévention et celle de soins. Tandis que la demande de prévention et celle de tests diagnostiques sont des substituts, la relation entre médecine diagnostique et curative est moins...

In this paper we examine how diagnostic tests affect the demands both for prevention and for treatments. While diagnostic tests and primary prevention are clearly substitutes, the link between diagnostic tests and the demand for treatment is ambiguous. Classification JEL : D81

[eng] Market insurance and willingness to pay. . . In this paper, we compare different levels of willingness to pay. Individuals can differ from several manners : they can be insured or not and they can be risk-neutral or risk averse. We establish classification rules in order to compare the...

Objectives: This study provides the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis of levetiracetam as an adjunctive treatment for refractory epilepsy from the Canadian Ministry of Health perspective. The main objective is to estimate the expected cost-effectiveness ratio expressed as the incremental...

We analyze the optimal choices of agents with utility functions whose derivatives alternate in sign, an important class that includes most of the functions commonly used in economics and finance (Mixed Risk Aversion, MRA, Caballé and Pomansky, 1996). We propose a comparative mixed risk aversion...