An Empirical Comparison of Stochastic Dominance and Mean-Variance Portfolio Choice Criteria

Abstract

An important issue in the financial literature concerns the conflict between the stochastic dominance (SD) and the mean-variance (EV) methods of choosing optimal portfolios of risky assets. Much of the recent theoretical and empirical work in portfolio analysis has been devoted to the extension and testing of the Markowitz two-moment model, in which it is assumed that either (a) decision makers have quadratic utility functions with negative second derivatives or (b) the probability functions are from some appropriate two-parameter family and the investor is risk averse.

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