A Risk-Averse Agent

question 40

Multiple Choice

A risk-averse agent:

• A) only cares about expected payoff.
• B) cares about expected payoff, as well as the variability of a payoff.
• C) only cares about the variability of a payoff.
• D) always prefers a certain payoff to a risky one.

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