Risk aversion when preferences are altruistic

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2022.110450MaRDI QIDQ2158652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

Publication date 26 July 2022

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110450

zbMATH Keywords

altruismrelative risk aversionunilateral altruismintensity of altruisminterpersonal transfersmutual altruismvariation in risk-taking preferences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08) Utility theory (91B16)

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