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The Firm under Uncertainty with General Risk-Averse Preferences: A State-Contingent Approach

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  • Quiggin, John
  • Chambers, Robert G

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This paper summarizes and synthesizes recent developments in the state-contingent theory of production under uncertainty presented by Chambers and Quiggin (2000) with a particular focus on the case of generalized expected utility preferences. The problem of the risk-averse firm under price and production uncertainty is analyzed using a state-contingent production technology and general risk-averse preferences. The concept of an efficient frontier, which identifies all potentially optimal production plans for weakly risk-averse decisionmakers, is introduced and used to develop comparative static results. For constant absolute risky technologies, the efficient frontier is shown to correspond to a unique isocost contour. Copyright 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Quiggin, John & Chambers, Robert G, 2001. "The Firm under Uncertainty with General Risk-Averse Preferences: A State-Contingent Approach," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 5-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jrisku:v:22:y:2001:i:1:p:5-20
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    1. Jean-Paul Chavas, 2012. "On learning and the economics of firm efficiency: a state-contingent approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 53-62, August.
    2. Dalal, Ardeshir J. & Alghalith, Moawia, 2009. "Production decisions under joint price and production uncertainty," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 197(1), pages 84-92, August.
    3. Moawia Alghalith, 2009. "Alternative theory of asset pricing," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(2), pages 73-74, June.
    4. John Quiggin, 2022. "Production under uncertainty and choice under uncertainty in the emergence of generalized expected utility theory," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 92(3), pages 717-729, April.
    5. Hurley, Terrance M., 2016. "Slutsky, Let Me Introduce You to Arrow-Pratt: Competitive Price Effects with Uncertain Production," Staff Papers 250204, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.
    6. Chavas, Jean-Paul & Barham, Bradford, 2007. "On Microeconomic Efficiency and Entrepreneurship under Bounded Rationality," Staff Paper Series 516, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    7. Walter Briec & Laurent Cavaignac, 2009. "An extension of the multi-output state-contingent production model," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 39(1), pages 43-64, April.

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