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Journal Article

Consider a choice between two random variables, for which only means and variances are known. Is it possible to rank them by putting some constraints on risk preferences?

The authors provide such a ranking by bounding how much marginal utility can change. Such bounds enable the authors to rank all distributions with given means and variances by first-order almost-stochastic dominance.

The authors show how their results can be used to compare a risky project and a sure payoff and also provide a new connection between the Sharpe and Omega ratios from finance.