The Skewness Premium and the Asymmetric Volatility Puzzle
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper uses a general equilibrium model to study the source and reward of asymmetric volatility or skewness of market returns in an exchange economy. In parKeywords
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