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A Note on Risk Aversion and Indifference Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Yakov Amihud
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In his recent paper in this Journal, Miller [3] proposed, following Adler's results [1], that “the investor exhibits decreasing absolute risk aversion with respect to expected wealth if, as increased holding σ constant, the slope of the indifference loci decreases” [3, p. 301]. He further attempted to have shown that in general the sign of () is the same as the sign of r'(W) (the derivative of the absolute risk aversion measure), but this is not proved.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 509 - 513
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1977

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