Efficient estimation of the equity cost of public corporations is an essential component of computing the required rate of return of real investment projects, and therefore the basis for a rational investment policy. The accepted methodology relies on the CAPM model to define the return risk...

Robust estimation techniques based on symmetric probability distributions are often substituted for OLS to obtain efficient regression parameters with thick-tail distributed data. The empirical, simulation and theoretical results in this paper show that with skewed distributed data, symmetric...

We study an equilibrium risk and return model to explore the effects of the coronavirus crisis and associated skewness. We derive the moment and equilibrium equations, specifying skewness price of risk as an additive component of the effect of variance on mean expected return. We estimate our...