Stochastic orders and inequalities are very useful tools in various areas of economics and finance. The purpose of this paper is to describe main results obtained so far by using the idea of stochastic orders in financial optimization. Especially, the emphasis is placed on the demand and shift...

Stochastic orders and inequalities are very useful tools in various areas of economics and finance. The purpose of this paper is to describe main results obtained so far by using the idea of stochastic orders in financial optimization. Especially, the emphasis is placed on the demand and shift...

Stochastic dominance (SD) is a very useful tool in various areas of economics and finance. the purpose of this paper is to provide the results of SD relations developed in other areas such as applied probability which, we believe, are useful for many portfolio selection problems. In particular,...