Abstract
The existing literature on the competitive firm under output price risk has concluded that the demand for labor (and any other factor) will be a decreasing function of the price of that factor if the firm’s utility function for profit satisfies decreasing absolute risk aversion. Here I add two alternative sufficient conditions, both related to the size of relative risk aversion.
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