
Risk aversion is traditionally defined in the context of lotteries over monetary payoffs. This paper extends the notion of risk aversion to a more general setup where outcomes (consequences) may not be measurable in monetary terms and people may have fuzzy preferences over lotteries, i.e. they may choose in a probabilistic manner. The paper considers comparative risk aversion within neoclassical expected utility theory, a constant error/tremble model and a strong utility model of probabilistic choice (which includes the Fechner model and the Luce choice model as special cases). The paper also provides a new definition of relative riskiness of lotteries.
10007 Department of Economics, IEW Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (former), Risk aversion, more risk averse than, riskiness, probabilistic choice,expected utility theory, Fechner model, Luce choice model, 330 Economics, jel: jel:D80, jel: jel:D81, jel: jel:D00
10007 Department of Economics, IEW Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (former), Risk aversion, more risk averse than, riskiness, probabilistic choice,expected utility theory, Fechner model, Luce choice model, 330 Economics, jel: jel:D80, jel: jel:D81, jel: jel:D00
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