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Putting Risk in Its Proper Place by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Schlesinger, Harris

“…This paper examines preferences toward particular classes of lottery pairs. We show how such concepts as prudence and temperance can be fully characterized by…”
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Changes in risk and the demand for saving by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Schlesinger, Harris

“…How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the data. How these differences affect…”
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Apportioning of risks via stochastic dominance by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Schlesinger, Harris, Tsetlin, Ilia

“…Consider a simple two-state risk with equal probabilities for the two states. In particular, assume that the random wealth variable X ˜ i dominates Y ˜ i via…”
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On insuring and caring for parents’ long-term care needs by Courbage, Christophe, Eeckhoudt, Louis

“…When adult children are financially responsible for their parents, they can take considerable interest in the amount of their parents’ long-term care (LTC)…”
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The Impact of Prudence on Optimal Prevention by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Gollier, Christian

“…What are the determinants of the optimal level of effort to reduce the probability of a loss to occur? Whereas most of the literature on this question focused…”
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Non-differentiable transformations preserving stochastic dominance by Denuit, M, Eeckhoudt, L, Jokung, O

“…In this paper, we solve the following problem: when does a stochastic improvement in one risk maintain itself under a non everywhere continuously…”
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The values of relative risk aversion and prudence: A context-free interpretation by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Etner, Johanna, Schroyen, Fred

“…In this paper we apply to multiplicative lotteries the idea of preference for “harm disaggregation” that was used for additive lotteries in order to interpret…”
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The economic value of informal care: a study of informal caregivers' and patients' willingness to pay and willingness to accept for informal care by van den Berg, Bernard, Bleichrodt, Han, Eeckhoudt, Louis

“…We provide a new test of the feasibility of using contingent valuation to value informal care. We start with a theoretical model of informal caregiving and…”
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Aversion to health inequalities and priority setting in health care by Bleichrodt, Han, Crainich, David, Eeckhoudt, Louis

“…Traditionally aversion to health inequality is modelled through a concave utility function over health outcomes. Bleichrodt et al. [Bleichrodt, H., Diecidue…”
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Management of prekallikrein deficiency during cardiac surgery by Eeckhoudt, Stephane L, Momeni, Mona, Matta, Amine, Latinne, Dominique, Arnout, Jef, Hermans, Cédric

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Changes in Background Risk and Risk Taking Behavior by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Gollier, Christian, Schlesinger, Harris

“…Economic decision making under uncertainty often takes place in the presence of multiple risks and in markets that are less than complete. As a consequence,…”
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Optimal consumption and the timing of the resolution of uncertainty by Eeckhoudt, Louis, Gollier, Christian, Treich, Nicolas

“…As is well-known, consumers want to accumulate precautionary savings in the face of income risks when their marginal utility is convex (prudence). In this…”
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Survival risks, intertemporal consumption, and insurance: The case of distorted probabilities by Bleichrodt, Han, Eeckhoudt, Louis

“…This paper explores how to evaluate changes in survival probabilities when people do not process probabilities linearly, as is commonly assumed in the…”
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Allocating health care resources under risk: risk aversion and prudence matter by Bui, Phuong, Crainich, David, Eeckhoudt, Louis

“…In a recent contribution to this journal, M. Hoel correctly shows that under risk aversion the allocation of health resources should be directed to health…”
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Differential induction of midazolam metabolism in the small intestine and liver by oral and intravenous dexamethasone pretreatment in rat by Eeckhoudt, S. L., Horsmans, Y., Verbeeck, R. K.

“…1. Midazolam is metabolized in the rat by CYP3A enzymes to 4-OH-midazolam (4-OH-MDZ) and 1'-OH-midazolam (1'-OH-MDZ). The induction of midazolam metabolism was…”
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To maintain or not to maintain? What should a risk-averse decision maker do? by Bardey, D, Riane, F, Artiba, A, Eeckhoudt, L

“…Purpose - In real-life applications maintenance managers often face complicated decision problems under uncertainty. This difficulty increases when they have…”
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Risk aversion and the external cost of a nuclear accident by Eeckhoudt, L., Schieber, C., Schneider, T.

“…The external costs of fuel cycles used in the production of electricity can be defined as those imposed on society and the environment, that are not accounted…”
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Does risk aversion increase the value of mortality risk? by Eeckhoudt, Louis R, Hammitt, James K

“…It is often asserted that individual willingness to pay to reduce mortality risk is greater among individuals who are “more risk-averse.” If risk aversion is…”
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Cryopreservation of rat precision-cut liver slices by ultrarapid freezing: Influence on phase I and II metabolism and on cell viability upon incubation for 24 hours by Vanhulle, V.P., Martiat, G.A., Verbeeck, R.K., Horsmans, Y., Calderon, P.Buc, Eeckhoudt, S.L., Taper, H.S., Delzenne, N.

“…Several cryopreservation methods for precision-cut rat liver slices (PCLS) have been proposed, allowing a short-term (a few hours) maintainance of viability…”
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Background Risks and the Value of a Statistical Life by EECKHOUDT, LOUIS R., HAMMITT, JAMES K.

“…We examine the effects of background mortality and financial risks on an individual's willingness to pay to reduce his mortality risk (the value of statistical…”
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