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Safety-First, Stochastic Dominance, and Optimal Portfolio Choice

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  1. Zakamouline, Valeri & Koekebakker, Steen, 2009. "Portfolio performance evaluation with generalized Sharpe ratios: Beyond the mean and variance," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(7), pages 1242-1254, July.
  2. Anthonisz, Sean A., 2012. "Asset pricing with partial-moments," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(7), pages 2122-2135.
  3. M. Haley, 2014. "Gaussian and logistic adaptations of smoothed safety first," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 333-345, May.
  4. Li, Zhongfei & Yao, Jing & Li, Duan, 2010. "Behavior patterns of investment strategies under Roy's safety-first principle," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 167-179, May.
  5. Jui-Cheng Hung & Chien-Liang Chiu & Ming-Chih Lee, 2006. "Hedging with zero-value at risk hedge ratio," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 259-269.
  6. Bertsimas, Dimitris & Lauprete, Geoffrey J. & Samarov, Alexander, 2004. "Shortfall as a risk measure: properties, optimization and applications," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 28(7), pages 1353-1381, April.
  7. Ruili Sun & Tiefeng Ma & Shuangzhe Liu & Milind Sathye, 2019. "Improved Covariance Matrix Estimation for Portfolio Risk Measurement: A Review," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-34, March.
  8. Diana Barro & Elio Canestrelli, 2009. "Tracking error: a multistage portfolio model," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 165(1), pages 47-66, January.
  9. Chen, Sheng-Syan & Lee, Cheng-few & Shrestha, Keshab, 2008. "Do the pure martingale and joint normality hypotheses hold for futures contracts: Implications for the optimal hedge ratios," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 153-174, February.
  10. Lean, Hooi Hooi & McAleer, Michael & Wong, Wing-Keung, 2010. "Market efficiency of oil spot and futures: A mean-variance and stochastic dominance approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(5), pages 979-986, September.
  11. M. Ryan Haley & Harry J. Paarsch & Charles H. Whiteman, 2013. "Smoothed safety first and the holding of assets," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 167-176, January.
  12. Pier Francesco Procacci & Tomaso Aste, 2022. "Portfolio optimization with sparse multivariate modeling," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 23(6), pages 445-465, October.
  13. Ahmedov, Zafarbek & Woodard, Joshua D., 2012. "Do RIN Mandates and Blender's Tax Credit Affect Blenders' Hedging Strategies?," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124980, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  14. M. Ryan Haley, 2018. "A nonparametric quantity-of-quality approach to assessing financial asset return performance," Annals of Finance, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 343-351, August.
  15. Courtois, Olivier Le & Xu, Xia, 2023. "Semivariance below the maximum: Assessing the performance of economic and financial prospects," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 209(C), pages 185-199.
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  22. Adam Krzemienowski & Sylwia Szymczyk, 2016. "Portfolio optimization with a copula-based extension of conditional value-at-risk," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 237(1), pages 219-236, February.
  23. Dominic Gasbarro & Wing-Keung Wong & J. Kenton Zumwalt, 2007. "Stochastic Dominance Analysis of iShares," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 89-101.
  24. Schuhmacher, Frank & Auer, Benjamin R., 2014. "Sufficient conditions under which SSD- and MR-efficient sets are identical," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 239(3), pages 756-763.
  25. Power, Gabriel J. & Vedenov, Dmitry, 2023. "Who's afraid of a Texas hedge?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(PB).
  26. Yu, Xing & Zhang, Wei Guo & Liu, Yong Jun & Wang, Xinxin & Wang, Chao, 2020. "Hedging the exchange rate risk for international portfolios," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 173(C), pages 85-104.
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  28. Ayub, Usman & Qaddus, Uzma & Zakaria, Muhammad & Shafique, Attayah & Ahmed, Junaid, 2018. "Thou should not panic! Let calmness fight the Crocodile Bite," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 509(C), pages 302-315.
  29. Rudolf, Markus & Wolter, Hans-Jurgen & Zimmermann, Heinz, 1999. "A linear model for tracking error minimization," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 85-103, January.
  30. Wong, Wing-Keung, 2007. "Stochastic dominance and mean-variance measures of profit and loss for business planning and investment," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 182(2), pages 829-843, October.
  31. Dennis W. Jansen & Liqun Liu, 2026. "Disaster aversion in the mean-disaster framework and its applications," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 51(1), pages 93-114, March.
  32. Thomas C. Chiang & Hooi Hooi Lean & Wing-Keung Wong, 2008. "Do REITs Outperform Stocks and Fixed-Income Assets? New Evidence from Mean-Variance and Stochastic Dominance Approaches," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 1(1), pages 1-40, December.
  33. Sharma, Sankalp & Schoengold, Karina, 2016. "A Comparison of Stated and Revealed Risk Preferences using Safety-First," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236126, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  34. Peter F. Christoffersen & Francis X. Diebold, 2006. "Financial Asset Returns, Direction-of-Change Forecasting, and Volatility Dynamics," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 52(8), pages 1273-1287, August.
  35. Levy, Haim & Levy, Moshe, 2009. "The safety first expected utility model: Experimental evidence and economic implications," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(8), pages 1494-1506, August.
  36. Locatelli, Giorgio & Mancini, Mauro, 2011. "Large and small baseload power plants: Drivers to define the optimal portfolios," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(12), pages 7762-7775.
  37. Deborah J. Harper & Larry V. St. Louis, 1999. "Regional Economic Diversification and Efficiency: Baumol' s Likely Lower Confidence Limit Measure of Risk," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 29(2), pages 197-211, Fall.
  38. Haley, M. Ryan & McGee, M. Kevin, 2011. ""KLICing" there and back again: Portfolio selection using the empirical likelihood divergence and Hellinger distance," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 341-352, March.
  39. Akhter Mohiuddin Rather & V. N. Sastry & Arun Agarwal, 2017. "Stock market prediction and Portfolio selection models: a survey," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 54(3), pages 558-579, September.
  40. Chen, Sheng-Syan & Lee, Cheng-few & Shrestha, Keshab, 2003. "Futures hedge ratios: a review," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 43(3), pages 433-465.
  41. Ortobelli, Sergio & Rachev, Svetlozar & Schwartz, Eduardo, 2000. "The Problem of Optimal Asset Allocation with Stable Distributed Returns," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management qt3zd6q86c, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
  42. Ivica Dus & Raimond Maurer & Olivia S. Mitchell, 2005. "Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities," NBER Working Papers 11271, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  43. Elie Matta & Jean McGuire, 2008. "Too Risky to Hold? The Effect of Downside Risk, Accumulated Equity Wealth, and Firm Performance on CEO Equity Reduction," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 19(4), pages 567-580, August.
  44. Salo, Ahti & Doumpos, Michalis & Liesiö, Juuso & Zopounidis, Constantin, 2024. "Fifty years of portfolio optimization," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 318(1), pages 1-18.
  45. Hooi Hooi Lean & Michael McAleer & Wing-Keung Wong, 2010. "Market Efficiency of Oil Spot and Futures: A Stochastic Dominance Approach," CARF F-Series CARF-F-201, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
  46. Zoulkiflou Moumouni & Jules Sadefo-Kamdem, 2019. "New models of commodity risk hedging according to the behavior of economic decision-makers or Rollover Strategies," Working Papers hal-02417459, HAL.
  47. Arthur Charpentier & Abder Oulidi, 2009. "Estimating allocations for Value-at-Risk portfolio optimization," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 69(3), pages 395-410, July.
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