Risk Aversion over Incomes and Risk Aversion over Commodities
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This note determines the precise connection between an agent’s attitude towards income risks and his attitude over risks in the underlying consumption space. Our results follow from a general mathematical theory connecting the curvature properties of an objective function with the ray-curvature properties of its dual.
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