Pareto efficiency and financial fairness under limited expected loss constraint

Tak Wa Ng and Thai Nguyen

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2025, vol. 117, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the Pareto efficiency and financial fairness in a collective asset allocation under a limited expected loss (LEL) constraint. By studying a constrained collective optimization problem, we characterize a constrained version of Pareto optimality, named LEL-Pareto optimality, within the admissible class of sharing rules. We propose a novel sharing rule, referred to as the LEL sharing rule, as an alternative to widely used proportional sharing rules. We rigorously demonstrate that every LEL sharing rule is LEL-Pareto-optimal and vice versa, thereby establishing a novel Borch-like criterion in a risk-constrained setting. Under the financial fairness condition, we derive a unique LEL sharing rule through a fixed-point iteration scheme by solving a highly non-linear system of Lagrange multipliers related to LEL-constrained optimization for collective utility and the financial fairness condition. Under mild conditions, we achieve global convergence and establish the existence of a unique fixed point of the iterative algorithm. Our numerical analysis affirms the theoretical findings and underscores the positive influence of the LEL constraint among prevalent proportional sharing rules, emphasizing the importance of risk control in practical scenarios.

Keywords: Risk management; Collective investment; Pareto optimality; Financial fairness; Limited expected loss; Fixed-point iteration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 C63 D71 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2025.103096

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