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This chapter overviews several subsets of Rothschild-Stiglitz (R-S) increases in risk and examines definitions, graphical examples and the comparative statics results of the subsets of R-S increases in risk. This chapter also gives some properties among the subclasses of R-S increases in risk.
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Kim, I., Kim, S., Ryu, S. (2020). The Subclasses of Rothschild and Stiglitz (R-S) Increases in Risk and Their Comparative Statics. In: Hosoe, M., Kim, I. (eds) Applied Economic Analysis of Information and Risk . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3300-6_10
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