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Extension of stochastic dominance theory to random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

Chi-Kwong Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, U.S.A.
Wing-Keung Wong
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, and Department of Statistics and Graduate School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
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Abstract

In this paper, we develop some stochastic dominancetheorems for the location and scale family and linear combinations ofrandom variables and for risk lovers as well as risk averters thatextend results in Hadar and Russell (1971) and Tesfatsion (1976). Theresults are discussed and applied to decision-making.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 1999

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