Annals of Operations Research

, Volume 212, Issue 1, pp 155–167 | Cite as

A note on allocation of portfolio shares of random assets with Archimedean copula

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Abstract

This paper further studies the single-period portfolio allocation of risk assets under the assumption that random returns having increasing utility and Archimedean copula. The shares of risk assets in the optimal allocation are proved to be ordered when marginal returns have the likelihood ratio order, and sufficient conditions for the joint density of returns of a multivariate risk to be arrangement increasing is built as well.

Keywords

Arrangement increasing Likelihood ratio order Majorization order Risk neutral Stochastic order 
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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the valuable comments from two anonymous reviewers, which improved the presentation of this manuscript.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Mathematical SciencesXiamen UniversityXiamenChina

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