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Dual Moments and Risk Attitudes

Authors :
Eeckhoudt, Louis R.
Laeven, Roger J. A.
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

In decision under risk, the primal moments of mean and variance play a central role to define the local index of absolute risk aversion. In this paper, we show that in canonical non-EU models dual moments have to be used instead of, or on par with, their primal counterparts to obtain an equivalent index of absolute risk aversion.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1612.03347
Document Type :
Working Paper