Recently, Caballi and Pomansky (1996) proposed a formal definition of mixed risk aversion and characterized stochastic … dominance in presence of such utility functions. However they did not study comparative mixed risk aversion. In this note we … give a sufficient condition for analytic comparative mixed risk aversion. …

We introduce a simple measure of risk aversion in the large. Besides satisfying properties which are conceptually … analogous to the usual properties of the Arrow-Pratt measure, the index of risk aversion in the large leads to a stronger … concept of decreasing risk aversion, which necessarily imp lies decreasing absolute risk aversion but not necessarily non …