The identification of stochastic dominance efficient sets by moment combination orderings

Abstract A new procedure using algebraic combinations of central moments is derived to identify stochastic dominance efficient sets of security portfolios. The number of computations involved with the moment combinations are significantly smaller than those with regular stochastic dominance tests. The effectiveness of the moment combination procedure is demonstrated with a large-scale empirical study.

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