Volume 4, Number 3, September 2008, pp. 433-446
Darinka Dentcheva and Andrzej Ruszczyński
Key words:
stochastic dominance, risk measures, dual utility, rank dependent utility, Kusuoka representation, duality, stochastic program
Mathematices Subject Classification: 90C15, 90C34, 90C48; 46N10, 60E15, 91B06
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Abstract:
We consider optimization problems with nonlinear second order stochastic dominance constraints formulated as relations of Lorenz curves. We demonstrate that mean-risk models with law invariant coherent risk measures appear as dual optimization problems to the problems with stochastic dominance constraints.
Duality between coherent risk measures and stochastic dominance constraints in risk-averse optimization