Risk sensitivity, a strangely pervasive concept

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-18

  Whittle, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Large Deviation Theory; Risk; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036002886     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100502027025     Document Type: Article

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