Upper Bounds on Risk Aversion under Mean-variance Utility

Kevin Denny

No 201902, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

Abstract: Based on a simple prior, this note derives upper bounds for the coefficient of absolute & relative risk aversion if utility can be written as depending linearly on the mean and variance of income.

Keywords: Risk aversion; Mean-variance utility; Risk tolerance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2019-02
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