Empirical Tests of Stochastic Dominance in Capital Investment Planning: A Spreadsheet Framework

Emmanuel A. Donkor

The Engineering Economist, 2014, vol. 59, issue 1, 55-78

Abstract: The empirical inadequacy of direct application of stochastic dominance rules and their variants has led to the development of statistical tests for making dominance inferences. Yet very little is known about their application in capital investment planning, and the algorithms for their implementation are not readily available to the analyst who uses spreadsheets for capital investment planning. Therefore, this article develops a spreadsheet framework for conducting empirical tests of stochastic dominance when comparing alternative capital investment plans under uncertainty. It uses bootstrap and simulation methodology to compute the p-values required for making first- and second-order dominance inferences. Results from numerical examples show that empirical tests yield robust inferences when the structure of risk profiles and their integrals is such that dominance inferences by visual inspection are difficult. Therefore, analysts should model and empirically test for these relationships if they want to make defensible decisions when comparing risky capital investments.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/0013791X.2013.859336

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