We develop and implement methods for determining whether introducing new securities or relaxing investment constraints improves the investment opportunity set for prospect investors. We formulate a new testing procedure for prospect spanning for two nested portfolio sets based on subsampling and...

Using properties of the cdf of a random variable defined as a saddle-type point of a real valued continuous stochastic process, we derive first-order asymptotic properties of tests for stochastic spanning w.r.t. a stochastic dominance relation. First, we define the concept of Markowitz...

This supplementary Technical Appendix contains formal proofs of the propositions which are stated in Anyfantaki, S., S. Arvanitis, S., Th. Post, Th. and N. Topaloglou, 2019, 'Stochastic Bounds for Portfolio Analysis', available at SSRN:"https://ssrn.com/abstract=3181869 "...

A methodology is developed for constructing robust forecast combinations which improve upon a given benchmark specification for all symmetric and convex loss functions. The optimal forecast combination asymptotically almost surely dominates the benchmark and, in addition, minimizes the expected...