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the assumptions of non-satiation and bounded marginal utility, prudence implies risk aversion (imprudence implies risk … loving) and that temperance implies prudence (intemperance implies imprudence). The implications of these results for …
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of uncertainty on the optimal size of a fish stock is ambiguous, depending on the prudence of the value function. For the …
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occurs, which influences the expected marginal utility of wealth. Using concepts of prudence (equivalently, downside risk … depends on risk aversion and prudence with respect to wealth. For the bivariate case (e.g., risk of death or illness), the … adjustment factor depends on risk aversion and cross-prudence in wealth. …
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We explore empirically whether earnings uncertainty and borrowing constraints deter households from the stockmarket, consistent with the predictions of theoretical studies of portfolio choice in the presence of uninsurable earnings. Recent extensions highlight the importance of the correlation...
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One of the most important developments in international finance and resource economics in the past twenty years is the rapid and widespread emergence of the $6 trillion sovereign wealth fund industry. Oil exporters typically ignore below-ground assets when allocating these funds, and ignore...
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In this letter, we show that the results presented by Jindapon and Neilson (2007) for changes in risk à la Ekern (1980) can be generalized to mean-preserving stochastic dominance changes, with appropriate and simple additional conditions on the utility function.
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This study provides a decision framework to analyze optimal production diversification decisions under uncertainty for a farmer who is risk averse in the Arrow-Pratt sense and downside risk averse. The decision model accounts for the third central moment of the joint distribution of portfolio...
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preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence,and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA. …
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We study risk aversion and prudence in medical treatment decisions. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate the ….3% prevalence rate). Risk aversion accounts for 3/4 of this effect, prudence for 1/4. The medical decision framing does not affect …
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. The degree of so-called relative prudence unambiguously decides whether or not the diversification of income risk favours …. Le degré de la soi-disant prudence relative décide sans ambiguïté si la diversification des risques de revenus favorise …
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