Authors: John Quiggin Robert G Chambers
Publish Date: 2006/12/05
Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 97-117
Abstract
In this article it is shown that a wide range of comparative statics results from expected utility theory can be extended to generalized expected utility models using the tools of supermodularity theory In particular a range of concepts of decreasing absolute risk aversion may be formulated in terms of the supermodularity properties of certainty equivalent representations of preferences
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