Portfolio choice and life insurance: The CRRA case

Journal of Risk and Insurance

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 847-872

  Huang, Huaxiong ^a   Milevsky, Moshe A ^b,c   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a Department of Mathematics and Statistics ^*

^b IFID Center

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 55449096710     PISSN: 00224367     EISSN: 15396975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2008.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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