Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
982302 The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 2009 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that a finding of marginal conditional stochastic dominance between two sub-portfolios of a portfolio, while sufficient for showing inefficiency of the portfolio and hence sub-optimality of the portfolio for all risk-averse investors, is not necessary. It is shown by an example that a portfolio can be inefficient even if, for all pairs of sub-portfolios, there is no marginal conditional stochastic dominance. In such a situation, a universally preferred portfolio can be constructed on the margin only by adjusting the shares of more than two sub-portfolios.
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