Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Discussion Papers on Economics,
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics

No 9/2013: Checking bivariate first order dominance

Troels Martin Range () and Lars Peter Østerdal ()
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Troels Martin Range: Department of Business and Economics, Postal: University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Lars Peter Østerdal: Department of Business and Economics, Postal: University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

Abstract: We consider the problem of checking first order dominance for finite bivariate distributions. We observe that this can be formulated as a special bipartite network problem related to the classical transportation problem. We exploit this observation to develop a new characterization of first order dominance and fast dominance-checking algorithms.

Keywords: Multidimensional first order dominance; usual stochastic order; characterization; network problem; checking algorithm

JEL-codes: C61; D63; I31

18 pages, May 27, 2013

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