Does risk aversion or attraction depend on income? An experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-273

  Bosch Domènech, Antoni ^a   Silvestre, Joaquim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Income risks; Risk attraction; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235660     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00154-8     Document Type: Article

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