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Skewness and Investors' Decisions

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  • Francis, Jack Clark

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It has been suggested by many [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10 and more] and denied by few that, ceteris paribus, a well-informed risk-averse investor should prefer investments which have positively skewed distributions of rates of return. Passing over the models which underlie such assertions, the question is addressed empirically here. Do (as opposed to “should”) investors prefer investments that are positively skewed, ceteris paribus?

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  • Francis, Jack Clark, 1975. "Skewness and Investors' Decisions," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(1), pages 163-172, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:10:y:1975:i:01:p:163-172_01
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    1. William L. Beedles, 1979. "Return, Dispersion, And Skewness: Synthesis And Investment Strategy," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 2(1), pages 71-80, March.
    2. Tamara Teplova & Evgeniya Shutova, 2011. "A Higher Moment Downside Framework for Conditional and Unconditional Capm in the Russian Stock Market," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 1(2), pages 157-178, December.
    3. Richard M. Duvall & Judith L. Quinn, 1981. "Skewness Preference In Stable Markets," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 4(3), pages 249-263, September.
    4. Scott Alan Carson & Wael M. Al-Sawai & Scott A. Carson, 2023. "Partially Adaptive Econometric Methods and Vertically Integrated Majors in the Oil and Gas Industry," CESifo Working Paper Series 10733, CESifo.
    5. Unser, Matthias, 2000. "Lower partial moments as measures of perceived risk: An experimental study," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 21(3), pages 253-280, June.
    6. Bill Woodland & Linda Woodland, 1999. "Expected utility, skewness, and the baseball betting market," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(3), pages 337-345.
    7. Athayde, Gustavo M. de & Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão, 1999. "Introducing higher moments in the CAPM: some basic ideas," FGV EPGE Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE) 362, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil).
    8. Simon Xu & Inchang Hwang & Francis In, 2016. "The Effect of Diversification on Tail Risk: Evidence from US Equity Mutual Fund Portfolios," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 16(3), pages 483-495, September.
    9. Andriy Andreev & Antti Kanto & Pekka Malo, 2007. "Computational Examples of a New Method for Distribution Selection in the Pearson System," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 487-506.
    10. Naval K. Modani & Philip L. Cooley & Rodney L. Roenfeldt, 1983. "Stability Of Market Risk Surrogates," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 6(1), pages 33-40, March.
    11. James B. McDonald & Richard A. Michelfelder & Panayiotis Theodossiou, 2009. "Robust Regression Estimation Methods and Intercept Bias: A Capital Asset Pricing Model Application," Multinational Finance Journal, Multinational Finance Journal, vol. 13(3-4), pages 293-321, September.
    12. R. Stephen Sears & Gary L. Trennepohl, 1983. "Diversification And Skewness In Option Portfolios," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 6(3), pages 199-212, September.
    13. James Mcdonald & Richard Michelfelder & Panayiotis Theodossiou, 2010. "Robust estimation with flexible parametric distributions: estimation of utility stock betas," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(4), pages 375-387.

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