Special Cases
- : this corresponds to risk neutrality, because utility is linear in c.
- : by virtue of l'Hôpital's rule, the limit of is as goes to one:
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- which justifies the convention of using the limiting value u(c) = log c when .
- → : this is the case of infinite risk aversion.
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