This article examines the risk-return relations conditional on up and down market periods in the Korean and Taiwan stock markets. Based on statistical tests adjusted for the effects of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation of the residuals, beta is found positively (negatively) related to...

This study revisits the risk-return relationships in the Hong Kong stock market using a conditional model based on up and down markets. Beta is found significantly and positively (negatively) related to realized returns when the market excess returns are positive (negative). The same results are...

This paper examines the day-of-the-week effect on skewness and kurtosis of stock returns of six international stock markets using a new approach. Empirical results show that a day-of-the-week effect exists on the skewness and kurtosis of all stock markets except the US market. The portfolio...