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Main Authors: Chambers, Christopher, Miller, Alan, Wang, Ruodu, Wu, Qinyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13138
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author Chambers, Christopher
Miller, Alan
Wang, Ruodu
Wu, Qinyu
author_facet Chambers, Christopher
Miller, Alan
Wang, Ruodu
Wu, Qinyu
contents Max-stability is the property that taking a maximum between two inputs results in a maximum between two outputs. We study max-stability with respect to first-order stochastic dominance, the most fundamental notion of stochastic dominance in decision theory. Under two additional standard axioms of nondegeneracy and lower semicontinuity, we establish a representation theorem for functionals satisfying max-stability, which turns out to be represented by the supremum of a bivariate function. A parallel characterization result for min-stability, that is, with the maximum replaced by the minimum in max-stability, is also established. By combining both max-stability and min-stability, we obtain a new characterization for a class of functionals, called the Lambda-quantiles, that appear in finance and political science.
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spellingShingle Max- and min-stability under first-order stochastic dominance
Chambers, Christopher
Miller, Alan
Wang, Ruodu
Wu, Qinyu
Mathematical Finance
Probability
Max-stability is the property that taking a maximum between two inputs results in a maximum between two outputs. We study max-stability with respect to first-order stochastic dominance, the most fundamental notion of stochastic dominance in decision theory. Under two additional standard axioms of nondegeneracy and lower semicontinuity, we establish a representation theorem for functionals satisfying max-stability, which turns out to be represented by the supremum of a bivariate function. A parallel characterization result for min-stability, that is, with the maximum replaced by the minimum in max-stability, is also established. By combining both max-stability and min-stability, we obtain a new characterization for a class of functionals, called the Lambda-quantiles, that appear in finance and political science.
title Max- and min-stability under first-order stochastic dominance
topic Mathematical Finance
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13138