Every univariate random variable is smaller, with respect to the ordinary stochastic order and with respect to the hazard rate order, than a right censored version of it. In this paper we attempt to generalize these facts to the multivariate setting. It turns out that in general such comparisons...

For a system consisting of n independent components, inspection and repair policies are compared in the sense of the usual multivariate stochastic order with respect to the partial orderings [greater-or-equal, slanted]b1 and [greater-or-equal, slanted]b2 on the set of permutations of {1,...,n}....

We provide some counterexamples showing that some concepts of positive dependence are strictly stronger than others. In particular we will settle two questions posed by Pemantle (2000) and Pellerey (2002) concerning respectively association versus weak association, weak association versus...

The quantification of diversification benefits due to risk aggregation has received more attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we establish second-order expansions of the risk concentration based on the risk measure of conditional tail expectation for a portfolio of n independent...

Karamata’s theorem is well known, which examines the integral properties of regular variation functions. In this paper, we obtain the second-order version of Karamata’s theorem, and give its one application in characterizing the second-order regular variation property of a survival function...

This paper studies capital allocation problems using a general loss function. Stochastic comparisons are conducted for general loss functions in several scenarios: independent and identically distributed risks; independent but non-identically distributed risks; comonotonic risks. Applications in...

It is well known that if a random vector with given marginal distributions is comonotonic, it has the largest sum in the sense of the convex order. Cheung (2008) proved that the converse of this assertion is also true, provided that all marginal distribution functions are continuous and that the...

The closure property of the up-shifted likelihood ratio order under convolutions was first proved by Shanthikumar and Yao (Stochastic Process. Appl. 23 (1986) 259) by establishing a stochastic monotonicity property of birth-death processes. Lillo et al. (Recent Advances in Reliability Theory:...

Consider a portfolio of n identically distributed risks with dependence structure modeled by an Archimedean survival copula. Wüthrich (2003) and Alink et al. (2004) proved that the probability of a large aggregate loss scales like the probability of a large individual loss, times a...

We extend the characterization of the left-monotone risk aversion developed by Ryan (2006) to the case of unbounded random variables. The notion of weak convergence is insufficient for such an extension. It requires the solution of a host of delicate convergence problems. To this end, some...