Extremal generators and extremal distributions for the continuous s-convex stochastic orderings

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-217

  Denuit, Michel ^a   Vylder, Etienne De ^b   Lefèvre, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extremal generators; Integral stochastic orderings; Moment spaces; S Convex orderings; S Convexity; Stochastic extrema; Whole life premium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010742255     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6687(98)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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