Workshop: Advances in stochastic dominance for welfare analysis
http://www.ferdi.fr/en/event/advances-stochastic-dominance-welfare-analysis The seminal contributions of Kolm and Atkinson showed four decades ago how the use of stochastic dominance (SD) could help understand and compare distributions of welfare. Initially used in economics for the analysis of choice in risky environments, SD has proved to be particularly useful in those contexts in which it is difficult to agree on the measurement either of ind…