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SOME EFFECTS OF TAXES ON RISK-TAKING 293<br />

bound of the probability that the outcome will fall below a preassigned disaster level, d.<br />

The analysis is carried out by using the Biename-Tchebycheff inequality<br />

P(|*-m|gm-d)£—?—j,<br />

(m-d)<br />

where P stands for probability and | . | indicates absolute value. Thus we have<br />

-2<br />

P(\x-m I & m-d) = P(x-m g m-d) + P(m-x fe m-d) g —,<br />

1 (m-d) 2<br />

and in particular,<br />

which gives<br />

P(m-x^ m~d)

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