Risk preferences under price uncertainties and production risk

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 1715-1735

  Kumbhakar, Subal C ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty equivalent; Production function; Risk aversion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646872144     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100105694     Document Type: Article

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