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Single-Period Markowitz Portfolio Selection, Performance Gauging, and Duality: A Variation on the Luenberger Shortage Function

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  • W. Briec

    (Université de Perpignan)

  • K. Kerstens

    (CNRS-LABORES, URA 362, IESEG)

  • J. B. Lesourd

    (Université de la Méditerranée)

Abstract

The Markowitz portfolio theory (Ref. 1) has stimulated research into the efficiency of portfolio management. This paper studies existing nonparametric efficiency measurement approaches for single-period portfolio selection from a theoretical perspective and generalizes currently used efficiency measures into the full mean-variance space. We introduce the efficiency improvement possibility function (a variation on the shortage function), study its axiomatic properties in the context of the Markowitz efficient frontier, and establish a link to the indirect mean-variance utility function. This framework allows distinguishing between portfolio efficiency and allocative efficiency; furthermore, it permits retrieving information about the revealed risk aversion of investors. The efficiency improvement possibility function provides a more general framework for gauging the efficiency of portfolio management using nonparametric frontier envelopment methods based on quadratic optimization.

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  • W. Briec & K. Kerstens & J. B. Lesourd, 2004. "Single-Period Markowitz Portfolio Selection, Performance Gauging, and Duality: A Variation on the Luenberger Shortage Function," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 120(1), pages 1-27, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joptap:v:120:y:2004:i:1:d:10.1023_b:jota.0000012730.36740.bb
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