Lau, Hon-Shiang; Wingender, John R - In: The Financial Review 24 (1989) 2, pp. 215-33
This paper analyzes how the skewness and kurtosis of securities' returns are affected by the length of the differencing interval over which returns are measured. Hawawini's previous analysis of this "intervaling effect" on log returns is shown to be incorrect, and the correct effects are...