On risk aversion with two risks

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-250

  Finkelshtain, Israel ^a   Kella, Offer ^a   Scarsini, Marco ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bivariate risk aversion; Concavity; Positive dependence; Risk aversion; Submodularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001059052     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4068(97)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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