Health risk and portfolio choice

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 472-485

  Edwards, Ryan D ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Background risk; Cross partial derivative; Precautionary saving; State dependent utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949123850     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500107000000287     Document Type: Article

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