Mean-Variance-Skewness Portfolio Performance Gauging: A General Shortage Function and Dual Approach

Walter Briec (), Kristiaan Kerstens and Octave Jokung ()
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Walter Briec: University of Perpignan, 52 Avenue Villeneuve, F-66000 Perpignan, France
Octave Jokung: EDHEC Business School, 58 Rue du Port, F-59046 Lille, France

Management Science, 2007, vol. 53, issue 1, 135-149

Abstract: This paper proposes a nonparametric efficiency measurement approach for the static portfolio selection problem in mean-variance-skewness space. A shortage function is defined that looks for possible increases in return and skewness and decreases in variance. Global optimality is guaranteed for the resulting optimal portfolios. We also establish a link to a proper indirect mean-variance-skewness utility function. For computational reasons, the optimal portfolios resulting from this dual approach are only locally optimal. This framework permits to differentiate between portfolio efficiency and allocative efficiency, and a convexity efficiency component related to the difference between the primal, nonconvex approach and the dual, convex approach. Furthermore, in principle, information can be retrieved about the revealed risk aversion and prudence of investors. An empirical section on a small sample of assets serves as an illustration.

Keywords: shortage function; efficient frontier; mean-variance-skewness portfolios; risk aversion; prudence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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