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Putting Risk in its Proper Place
- L. Eeckhoudt, H. Schlesinger
- Economics, Mathematics
- 1 May 2005
This paper examines preferences toward particular classes of lottery pairs. We show how such concepts as prudence and temperance can be fully characterized by a preference relation over these… Expand
The Risk-Averse and Prudent Newsboy
- L. Eeckhoudt, C. Gollier, H. Schlesinger
- Economics
- 1 May 1995
The effects of risk and risk aversion in the single-period inventory "newsboy" problem are examined. Comparative-static effects of changes in the various price and cost parameters are determined and… Expand
A Good Sign for Multivariate Risk Taking
- L. Eeckhoudt, B. Rey, H. Schlesinger
- Economics, Mathematics
- Manag. Sci.
- 1 September 2006
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Self-Insurance, Self-Protection and Increased Risk Aversion
- G. Dionne, L. Eeckhoudt
- Psychology
- 1984
Dans Ce Texte Nous Analysons L'effet D'un Accroissement du Degre de Riscophobie Sur les Activites D'auto-Assurance et D'auto-Protection. Nous Montrons Que Contrairement aux Activites… Expand
Changes in Risk and the Demand for Saving
- L. Eeckhoudt, H. Schlesinger
- Economics
- 1 September 2008
How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the… Expand
Apportioning of Risks via Stochastic Dominance
- L. Eeckhoudt, H. Schlesinger, I. Tsetlin
- Economics, Computer Science
- J. Econ. Theory
- 1 November 2008
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The impact of prudence on optimal prevention
- L. Eeckhoudt, C. Gollier
- Psychology, Economics
- 1 November 2005
Summary.What are the determinants of the optimal level of effort to reduce the probability of a loss to occur? Whereas most of the literature on this question focused on risk aversion, we show that… Expand
On the intensity of downside risk aversion
- D. Crainich, L. Eeckhoudt
- Economics
- 17 May 2008
The degree of downside risk aversion (or equivalently prudence) is so far usually measured by $\frac{-U^{\prime \prime \prime }}{U^{\prime \prime }}$. We propose here another measure,… Expand
Changes in Background Risk and Risk Taking Behavior
- L. Eeckhoudt, C. Gollier, H. Schlesinger
- Economics
- 1 May 1996
We consider the effects of changes in the distribution of a background risk on the optimal risk taking behaviour of a risk- averse decision maker. In particular, we suppose that the background risk… Expand
Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk
- L. Eeckhoudt, C. Gollier, H. Schlesinger
- Business
- 23 January 2005
University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and… Expand
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