Samuelson's Fallacy of Large Numbers With Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion
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Keywords
Risk aversion; Paul Samuelson; Law of large numbers;All these keywords.
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- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2024-07-22 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-RMG-2024-07-22 (Risk Management)
- NEP-UPT-2024-07-22 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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