A Note on Risk Aversion and Indifference Curves

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Year: 1977
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Pages: 509-513

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Abstract

In his recent paper in this Journal, Miller [3] proposed, following Adler's results [1], that “the investor exhibits decreasing absolute risk aversion with respect to expected wealth if, as increased holding σ constant, the slope of the indifference loci decreases” [3, p. 301]. He further attempted to have shown that in general the sign of () is the same as the sign of r'(W) (the derivative of the absolute risk aversion measure), but this is not proved.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:cup:jfinqa:v:12:y:1977:i:03:p:509-513_02
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-24