Mean-variance vs. stochastic dominance some empirical findings on efficient sets |
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Authors: | Joseph Aharony Martin Loeb |
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Institution: | Lecturer, Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel;Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The study attempts to shed additional light on the issue of the costs and benefits of using the mean-variance criterion as opposed to stochastic dominance criteria for investment decisions. Relevant probabilities which facilitate measurement of these costs and benefits are identified. The mean-variance criterion is shown to be useful to some extent in identifying potentially optimal portfolios. However, it is shown that the informationally less demanding mean-variance criterion admits two types of errors: (i) including portfolios that no expected utility maximizing risk averters would choose, and (ii) excluding portfolios which some risk averters would find optimal. The empirical investigation also indicates that although the composition of the efficient sets appears to be unstable over time, the relationships between the efficient sets are persistent over time. |
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