Skewness and the Relation Between Risk and Return

Panayiotis Theodossiou () and Christos Savva ()
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Panayiotis Theodossiou: Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3603, Cyprus, p.theodossiou@cut.ac.cy

Management Science, 2016, vol. 62, issue 6, 1598-1609

Abstract: The relationship between risk and return has been one of the most important and extensively investigated issues in the financial economics literature. The theoretical results predict a positive relation between the two. Nevertheless, the empirical findings so far have been contradictory. Evidence presented in this paper shows that these contradictions are the result of negative skewness in the distribution of portfolio excess return and the fact that the estimation of intertemporal asset pricing models are based on symmetric log-likelihood specifications.Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2201 . This paper was accepted by Jerome Detemple, finance .

Keywords: risk–return trade-off; SGT distribution; GARCH-M (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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