THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STOCK RETURN SKEWNESS AND BANK FEATURES

This paper studies to what extent bank-specific characteristics relate to stock return skewness. The main finding is that stock return skewness decreases significantly in bank size, measured in terms of total assets, i.e stocks of large banks are less skewed than those of small banks. This result ho...

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Main Authors: SILVIA BRESSAN, ALEX WEISSENSTEINER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions
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Online Access:http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2282717X1850010X