Risk attitudes with state-dependent indivisibilities in consumption
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- Fels, Markus, 2019. "Risk Attitudes with State-Dependent Indivisibilities in Consumption," VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy 203489, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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Keywords
risk preferences; indivisible consumption; insurance; gambling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2019-05-20 (Business Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2019-05-20 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2019-05-20 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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