Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-127

  Machina, Mark J ^a   Pratt, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative risk; Increasing risk; Mean preserving spread; Noise; Risk; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031511878     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007719626543     Document Type: Article

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