Risk aggregation and stochastic dominance for a class of heavy-tailed distributions

Yuyu Chen, Vsevolod Shneer

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Abstract

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 generalized to allow negatively dependent or non-identically distributed random variables. In particular, the weighted average of non-identically distributed random variables dominates their distribution mixtures in stochastic order.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA
Early online date11 Jun 2025
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 11 Jun 2025

Keywords

  • Heavy-tailed distributions
  • stochastic order
  • negative dependence
  • infinite mean

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