This study examines the importance of idiosyncratic volatility in asset pricing for Australian stock returns from January 2002 to December 2010. Inspired by work from the early 1990s which found that portfolios constructed to mimic common risk factors explained significant variations in US stock...

Han and Lesmond (2011) find that stock liquidity, namely bid-ask bounce, affects the pricing of idiosyncratic volatility. Following Ang et al. (2009) and Han and Lesmond (2011), we investigate the pricing of idiosyncratic volatility and liquidity-adjusted idiosyncratic volatility over the period...