Improving the Power of Tests of Stochastic Dominance

Stephen G. Donald and Yu-Chin Hsu

Econometric Reviews, 2016, vol. 35, issue 4, 553-585

Abstract: We extend Hansen's (2005) recentering method to a continuum of inequality constraints to construct new Kolmogorov--Smirnov tests for stochastic dominance of any pre-specified order. We show that our tests have correct size asymptotically, are consistent against fixed alternatives and are unbiased against some N -super-−1/2 local alternatives. It is shown that by avoiding the use of the least favorable configuration, our tests are less conservative and more powerful than Barrett and Donald's (2003) and in some simulation examples we consider, we find that our tests can be more powerful than the subsampling test of Linton et al. (2005). We apply our method to test stochastic dominance relations between Canadian income distributions in 1978 and 1986 as considered in Barrett and Donald (2003) and find that some of the hypothesis testing results are different using the new method.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2013.833813

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