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Table 2 Comparison between risk measures in newsvendor problems

From: Comparing validity of risk measures on newsvendor models in open innovation perspective

Risk measures \ Model types

Consistency to the four axioms for coherent risk measures

Convexity

Monotonicity

Translation Equivariance

Positive Homogeneity

Utility Function

Yes

Yes

No

No

Stochastic Dominance

It is a reference criterion.

Thus, it is not directly applicable for implementation.

Chance Constraints (or Value-at-risk)

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mean-risk

Analysis

Coherent

Mean-deviation from quantile or mean-semideviation

Yes for all of the four axioms

General Coherent Risk Measures

Yes for all of the four axioms

Non-Coherent

Mean-variance

No

No

Yes

No

Mean-standard deviation

No

No

Yes

Yes