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Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and Correlation Aversion

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Antoine Bommier () (CNRS and University of Toulouse)

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Intertemporal correlation aversion is an intuitive concept indicating whether an individual prefers lotteries concerning consumption at different moments in time to be positively or negatively correlated. I show that the difference between the coefficient of relative risk aversion and the inverse of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution is related, in a simple way, to the index of intertemporal correlation aversion.

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Volume (Year): 4 (2007)
Issue (Month): 29 ()
Pages: 1-8
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Keywords: Correlation Aversion.; Intertemporal Choice; Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution; Multivariate Risk Aversion; Risk Aversion; Temporal Risk Aversion;

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