Safety-first criteria and their measures of risk

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 225-235

  Bigman, David ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Certainty equivalent; Money illusion; Risk aversion; Safety first; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000965208     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243793     Document Type: Article

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