We show that the distribution of any portfolio whose components jointly follow a location-scale mixture of normals can be characterised solely by its mean, variance and skewness. Under this distributional assumption, we derive the mean-varianceskewness frontier in closed form, and show that it...

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the econometrics of mean-variance efficiency tests. Starting with the classic F test of Gibbons, Ross and Shanken (1989) and its generalised method of moments version, I analyse the effects of the number of assets and portfolio composition on test...

In this paper I estimate empirical growth models simultaneaously considering endogenous regressors and model uncertainty. In order to apply Bayesian methods such as Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to dynamic panel data models with predetermined or endogenous variables and fixed effects, I propose...