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Should More Risk-Averse Agents Exert More Effort?

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Jullien, B.
Salanie, B.
Salanie, F.

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Consider an agent facing a risky distribution of losses who can change this distribution by exerting some effort. Should be exert more effort when he becomes more risk-averse? For instance, should we expect more risk-averse drivers to drive more cautiously? In this paper, we give sufficient conditions under which the answer is positive, using results presented in Jewitt (1989).

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Paper provided by Toulouse - GREMAQ in its series Papers with number 98.489.

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Date of creation: 1998
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