The Utility of Wealth

Markowitz, H. (1952). The Utility of Wealth. Journal of Political Economy, 60(2), 151-158.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1952

DOI

10.1086/257177

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/257177

Cited from

economics_finance

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Primes

• Risk Aversion
  • and Markowitz's 1952 utility model

    This sourceProposes a reference-point-dependent, triply-inflected utility-of-wealth function (utility defined over changes from current wealth) to repair Friedman–Savage anomalies — an early reference-dependent alternative to uniform concavity.

Domain-specific

• Friedman–Savage utility function
  • … variable and utility normalization, locations and signs of curvature, lotteries or insurance contracts, initial wealth, expected-utility calculation and behavioral prediction are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the same invariant under changed scale, notation, dataset, jurisdiction, or implementation..

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