This study examines the asset pricing implications of preferences over the higher moments of returns' distributions. We show that in a market populated by risk-averse, prudent and temperate investors, firms whose returns exhibit negative coskewness or positive cokurtosis should yield higher...

This article examines the impact on market quality that the introduction of a closing call auction had at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Using the market model approach of Cohen et al. (1983a, b) we show that opening and closing market quality improved for those Financial Times and Stock...