Published December 3, 2019 | Version Submitted
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There are no monotone homomorphisms out of the convolution semigroup

Abstract

We prove that there is no nonzero way of assigning real numbers to probability measures on R in a way which is monotone under first-order stochastic dominance and additive under convolution.

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T. Fritz would like to thank Lu Chen for discussion. O. Tamuz was supported by the Simons Foundation (#419427) and by the BSF (#2018397).

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There is no good way to quantify fat tailed distributions

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100877
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Simons Foundation
419427
Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)
2018397

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2020-01-23
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2023-06-02
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