Frontiers of stochastically nondominated portfolios

Andrzej Ruszczynski, Robert J. Vanderbei

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Abstract

We consider the problem of constructing a portfolio of finitely many assets whose returns are described by a discrete joint distribution. We propose mean-risk models that are solvable by linear programming and generate portfolios whose returns are nondominated in the sense of second-order stochastic dominance. Next, we develop a specialized parametric method for recovering the entire mean-risk efficient frontiers of these models and we illustrate its operation on a large data set involving thousands of assets and realizations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1287-1297
Number of pages11
JournalEconometrica
Volume71
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economics and Econometrics

Keywords

  • Least absolute deviations
  • Linear programming
  • Mean-risk analysis
  • Parametric simplex method
  • Portfolio optimization
  • Robust statistics
  • Stochastic dominance

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