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cemmap Working Papers
June 2004 CWP09/04
Article
Pessimistic portfolio allocation and Choquet expected utility
Type: cemmap Working Papers
Authors: Gilbert W. Bassett Jr, Roger Koenker and Gregory Kordas
ISSN: 1753-9196
Volume, issue, pages: 16 pp.

Recent developments in the theory of choice under uncertainty and risk yield a pessimistic decision theory that replaces the classical expected utility criterion with a Choquet expectation that accentuates the likelihood of the least favorable outcomes. A parallel theory has recently emerged in the literature on risk assessment. It is shown that a general form of pessimistic portfolio optimization based on the Choquet approach may be formulated as a problem of linear quantile regression.

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