Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio; Serrano, Roberto; Volij, Oscar - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2003
This paper contributes to an important recent debate around expected utility and risk aversion. Rejecting a gamble over a given range of wealth levels imposes a lower bound on risk aversion. Using this lower bound and empirical evidence on the range of the risk aversion coefficient, we calibrate...