Elasticity of risk aversion and international trade

Economics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 126-130

  Broll, Udo ^a   Wahl, Jack E ^b   Wong, Wing Keung ^c,d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Devaluation; Elasticity of risk aversion; Exchange rate risk; Mean variance model; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744548910     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.01.031     Document Type: Article

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