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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Vol. 14 No. 2 1979

Relative Risk Aversion: Increasing or Decreasing?

Philip E. Graves

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Abstract

The existence of risk aversion in portfolio theory can be explained by positing a concave utility function of wealth. In some cases it is useful to construct some measure of risk aversion rather than merely accept its existence.

DOI
10.2307/2330498
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
205
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