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May 1981 - Volume 49 Issue 3 Page 621 - 638


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Some Stronger Measures of Risk Aversion in the Small and the Large with Applications

Stephen A. Ross

Abstract

This paper argues that the traditional Arrow-Pratt measures of risk aversion are generally too weak for making comparisons between risky situations. A new stronger ordering is proposed, and it is applied to some canonical problems in insurance and finance, for which the Arrow-Pratt measures give ambiguous results.

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