Essentials of Business Analytics (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, David R. Anderson
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Chapter 15, Problem 25P
Consider a decision maker who is comfortable with an investment decision that has a 50% chance of earning $25,000 and a 50% chance of losing $12,500, but not with any larger investments that have the same relative payoffs.
- a. Write the equation for the exponential
function that approximates this decision maker’s utility function. - b. Plot the exponential utility function for this decision maker for x values between –20,000 and 35,000. Is this decision maker risk-seeking, risk-neutral, or risk-averse?
- c. Suppose the decision maker decides that she would actually be willing to make an investment that has a 50% chance of earning $30,000 and a 50% chance of losing $15,000. Plot the exponential function that approximates this utility function and compare it to the utility function from part (b). Is the decision maker becoming more risk-seeking or more risk-averse?
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