ABSTRACT

The stochastic dominance method of measuring uncertainty developed

use of higher level stochastic dominance indices. A second safequard

which the cardinal measures are not always valid.

A more serious problem with our measure of uncertainty, or indeed

perhaps not even the most appropriate one. In the case of the Brazilian

crawling peg, for example, the government announced how the new exchange

our econometric estimates of the uncertainty coefficients was incorrectly

Perhaps the most interesting issue which our method of measuring

these measures will be dominated by variance, and in the case of H3 (b),

perfectly correlated. The progressive addition of higher central moments

as we impose higher degree rules narrows substantially the likelihood that

central moments large, or both, for the stochastic dominance approach and

either the use of variance, equivalent to H3(b), or the higher level H6(b)

answers.