Risk-taking behavior in the presence of nonconvex asset dynamics

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 982-988

  Lybbert, Travis J ^a   Barrett, Christopher B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POVERTY; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80053058087     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: 14657295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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