Consider Two Upward Sloping Income-Utility Curves with Income on the Horizontal

question 142

Multiple Choice

Consider two upward sloping income-utility curves with income on the horizontal axis. The steeper curve represents risk preferences that are more:

• A) risk averse.
• B) risk loving.
• C) loss averting.
• D) We cannot answer this question without more information about the shapes of the curves.

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