Effects of mortality risk on risk-taking behavior

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2006.08.001MaRDI QIDQ1929809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier

Publication date 9 January 2013

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2006.08.001

zbMATH Keywords

financial riskmortality riskstate-dependent utility function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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