Define Risk Aversion - Consider a risk-averse
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Updated on: 09/01/2017 06:26 AM Due on: 09/01/2017
Define Risk Aversion. Consider a risk-averse von Neumann-Morgenstern individual having wealth wwho must decide whether to accept or decline a simple gamble offering a chance of winning or losing a small amount of wealth h with probabilities p and (1-p), respectively. Prove that p must be greater than , where is the individual’s measure of absolute risk-aversion, in order to induce the individual to accept the gamble.
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Solution: Define Risk Aversion - Consider a risk-averse