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More on Insurance as a Giffen Good

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  • Briys, Eric
  • Dionne, Georges
  • Eeckhoudt, Louis

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In this article, we generalize the Hoy and Robson (1981) analysis and provide a necessary and sufficient condition for insurance not to be a Giffen good. The condition gives a bound for the variation of absolute risk aversion that permits the wealth effect to be always dominated by the substitution effect. Copyright 1989 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Briys, Eric & Dionne, Georges & Eeckhoudt, Louis, 1989. "More on Insurance as a Giffen Good," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 2(4), pages 415-420, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jrisku:v:2:y:1989:i:4:p:415-20
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