Optimization with stochastic dominance constraints

Darinka Dentcheva, Andrzej Ruszczyński

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Abstract

We introduce stochastic optimization problems involving stochastic dominance constraints. We develop necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality and duality theory for these models and show that the Lagrange multipliers corresponding to dominance constraints are concave nondecreasing utility functions. The models and results are illustrated on a portfolio optimization problem.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)548-566
Number of pages19
JournalSIAM Journal on Optimization
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Keywords

  • Duality
  • Optimality conditions
  • Partial orders
  • Stochastic dominance
  • Stochastic programming

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