Given the utility function U(W) = 10W 1/2 , wherein W = payoff, (a) Graph the function.

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Given the utility function U(W) = 10W1/2, wherein W = payoff,

(a) Graph the function.

(b) Does the function exhibit risk aversion? What is your criterion?

(c) How will changing the constant term 10 to an arbitrary number a affect the answer to parts

(a) and (b)? (i.e., by assuming that a is greater or less than 0, what different result will we get?)

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Statistics For Business And Financial Economics

ISBN: 9781461458975

3rd Edition

Authors: Cheng Few Lee , John C Lee , Alice C Lee

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