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Relative Risk Aversion: Increasing or Decreasing?

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  • Graves, Philip E.

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The existence of risk aversion in portfolio theory can be explained by positing a concave utility function of wealth. In some cases it is useful to construct some measure of risk aversion rather than merely accept its existence.

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  • Graves, Philip E., 1979. "Relative Risk Aversion: Increasing or Decreasing?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 14(2), pages 205-214, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:14:y:1979:i:02:p:205-214_00
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    1. Chaigneau, Pierre, 2013. "Explaining the structure of CEO incentive pay with decreasing relative risk aversion," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 4-23.
    2. Graves, Philip E, 1980. "The Velocity of Money: Evidence for the U.K., 1911-1966," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 18(4), pages 631-639, October.
    3. Sun, Qian & Tong, Wilson H.S., 2010. "Risk and the January effect," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(5), pages 965-974, May.
    4. Arnaud Zlatko Dragicevic, 2022. "Exchange Networks with Stochastic Matching," Games, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-18, December.
    5. Dilip B. Madan & King Wang, 2024. "On the real rate of interest in a closed economy," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 459-477, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance

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