Journal Article
No. 2018-1 | January 02, 2018
Jianwei Gao, Feng Zhao and Yundong Gu
Sufficient conditions of stochastic dominance for general transformations and its application in option strategy

Abstract

A counterexample is presented to show that the sufficient condition for one transformation dominating another by the second degree stochastic dominance, proposed by Theorem 5 of Levy (Stochastic dominance and expected utility: Survey and analysis, 1992), does not hold. Then, by restricting the monotone property of the dominating transformation, a revised exact sufficient condition for one transformation dominating another is given. Next, the stochastic dominance criteria, proposed by Meyer (Stochastic dominance and transformations of random variables, 1989) and developed by Levy (1992), are extended to the most general transformations. Moreover, such criteria are further generalized to transformations on discrete random variables. Finally, the authors employ this method to analyze the transformations resulting from holding a stock with the corresponding call option.

JEL Classification:

C51, D81

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Jianwei Gao, Feng Zhao, and Yundong Gu (2018). Sufficient conditions of stochastic dominance for general transformations and its application in option strategy. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2018-1): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-1