Extreme inequality aversion without separability

Economic Theory

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 589-594

  Bosmans, Kristof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inequality aversion; Leximin; Maximin; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347231628     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0136-0     Document Type: Article

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