Global idiosyncratic risk moments

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Abstract

We investigate a global cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic risk moments and expected stock returns by suggesting three global idiosyncratic volatility, skewness, and kurtosis risk factors. We also suggest two global small minus big and high minus low risk proxies for estimating return residuals of the test assets from a global asset pricing model. To perform robustness checks, we suggest other four global risk factors of momentum, leverage, bid-ask spread, and liquidity. We find a significant negative relation between stock portfolio returns and the global moments, and the cross section of stock returns reflects a significant negative price of risk for global idiosyncratic skewness (−0.13%) and idiosyncratic volatility (−1.85%) and a positive and significant price of risk for global idiosyncratic kurtosis. We find that our suggested risk factors are key drivers of risk premia in stock market and are robust to various checks. These factors also can forecast the gross domestic product growth over the sample period.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)731-764
Number of pages34
JournalEmpirical Economics
Volume55
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • foreign exchange
  • risk factors
  • stock exchanges
  • volatility

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