The rationality of accepting compounds of unattractive gambles
| dc.contributor.author | Chew, Soo Hong | |
| dc.contributor.author | Epstein, Larry G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-01-21T16:33:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-01-21T16:33:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1987-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A compound of many independent replicas of a gamble may be chosen by a risk averter even if the single gamble would be rejected given any initial wealth level. Samuelson has shown that such choices are impossible if the expected utility theory of preference is adopted. But they are consistent with more general theories of preference. Consequently, the intuition suggested by the law of large numbers can be correct. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en |
| dc.format.extent | 3746136 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/9824 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0829-4909 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/445 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Toronto | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Analysis working paper series;No. 8702 | |
| dc.subject | gamble | en |
| dc.subject | risk | en |
| dc.subject | theory of preference | en |
| dc.subject | law of large numbers | en |
| dc.subject.other | Gambling Literature | |
| dc.title | The rationality of accepting compounds of unattractive gambles | en |
| dc.type | technical report | en |
