Working Paper

Pessimistic portfolio allocation and Choquet expected utility

Authors

Gilbert W. Bassett Jr Bassett, Roger Koenker, Gregory Kordas

Published Date

7 June 2004

Type

Working Paper (CWP09/04)

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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Pessimistic portfolio allocation and Choquet expected utility
Gilbert W. Bassett Jr Bassett, Roger Koenker
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