Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and Correlation Aversion
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چکیده
Intertemporal correlation aversion is an intuitive concept indicating whether an individual prefers lotteries concerning consumption at different moments in time to be positively or negatively correlated. I show that the difference between the coefficient of relative risk aversion and the inverse of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution is related, in a simple way, to the index of intertemporal correlation aversion. JEL classification: D90, D80.
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