Comparative statics of properness in two-moment decision models

Economic Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1007-1012

  Eichner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparativestatics.; Mean standard deviation; Properness

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244463977     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0490-8     Document Type: Article

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