Testing for risk aversion: A stochastic dominance approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 233-240

  Levy, Moshe ^a   Levy, Haim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

C91; D81; Decision making under uncertainty; Risk aversion; Stochastic Dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035645038     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00377-9     Document Type: Article

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