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Stochastic dominance for super heavy-tailed random variables
We introduce a class of super heavy-tailed distributions and establish the
inequality that any weighted average of independent and identically distributed
super heavy-tailed random variables stochastically dominates one such random
variable. We show that many commonly used extremely heavy-tailed (i.e.,
infinite-mean) distributions, such as the Pareto, Fr\'echet, and Burr
distributions, belong to the class of super heavy-tailed distributions. The
established stochastic dominance relation is further generalized to allow
negatively dependent or non-identically distributed random variables. In
particular, the weighted average of non-identically distributed random
variables stochastically dominates their distribution mixtures. Applications of
these results in portfolio diversification, goods bundling, and inventory
management are discussed. Remarkably, in the presence of super
heavy-tailedness, the results that hold for finite-mean models in these
applications are flipped.