TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk aggregation and stochastic dominance for a class of heavy-tailed distributions
AU - Chen, Yuyu
AU - Shneer, Vsevolod
PY - 2025/5/7
Y1 - 2025/5/7
N2 - we introduce a new class of heavy-tailed distributions for which any weighted average of independent and identically distributed random variables is larger than one such random variable in (usual) stochastic order. We show that many commonly used extremely heavy-tailed (i.e., infinite-mean) distributions, such as the Pareto, Fréchet, and Burr distributions, belong to this class. The established stochastic dominance relation can be further generalised to allow negatively dependent or non-identically distributed random variables. In particular, the weighed average of non-identically distributed random variables dominates their distribution mixtures in stochastic order.
AB - we introduce a new class of heavy-tailed distributions for which any weighted average of independent and identically distributed random variables is larger than one such random variable in (usual) stochastic order. We show that many commonly used extremely heavy-tailed (i.e., infinite-mean) distributions, such as the Pareto, Fréchet, and Burr distributions, belong to this class. The established stochastic dominance relation can be further generalised to allow negatively dependent or non-identically distributed random variables. In particular, the weighed average of non-identically distributed random variables dominates their distribution mixtures in stochastic order.
M3 - Article
SN - 0515-0361
JO - ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA
JF - ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA
ER -