Ordering risks: Expected utility theory versus Yaari's dual theory of risk

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-161

  Wang, Shaun S ^a   Young, Virginia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gini index; Income inequality; Insurance economics; Inverse stochastic dominance; Partial orderings; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032093383     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6687(97)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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