Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market
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J. Risk Financial Manag. 2019, 12(3), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm12030149
Received: 20 June 2019 / Revised: 3 September 2019 / Accepted: 10 September 2019 / Published: 12 September 2019
(This article belongs to the Collection Empirical Finance Research)
Previous studies have shown that investor preference for positive skewness creates a potential premium on negatively skewed assets. In this paper, we attempt to explore the connection between investors’ skewness preferences and corresponding demand for a risk premium on asset returns. Using data from the Japanese stock market, we empirically study the significance of risk aversion with skewness preference that potentially delivers a premium. Compared to studies on other stock markets, our finding suggests that Japanese investors exhibit preference for positively skewed assets, but do not display dislike for ones that are negatively skewed. This implies that investors from different countries having dissimilar attitudes toward risk may possess different preferences toward positive skewness, which would result in a different magnitude of expected risk premium on negatively skewed assets.
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Keywords:
asset pricing; higher moment estimators; Japanese stock market; risk preferences; systematic skewness
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Yang, S.-P.; Nguyen, T. Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market. J. Risk Financial Manag. 2019, 12, 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm12030149
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Yang S-P, Nguyen T. Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market. Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 2019; 12(3):149. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm12030149
Chicago/Turabian StyleYang, Sheng-Ping; Nguyen, Thanh. 2019. "Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market" J. Risk Financial Manag. 12, no. 3: 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm12030149
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