This paper is an investigation into the determinants of asymmetries in stock returns. We develop a series of cross-sectional regression specifications which attempt to forecast skewness in the daily returns of individual stocks. Negative skewness is most pronounced in stocks that have...

In this paper, an attempt has been made to model the volatility of NIFTY index of National Stock Exchange (NSE) and forecast the NIFTY stock returns for short term by using daily data ranging from January, 2000, to December, 2014, which comprises 3736 data points for the analysis by using...

Rogers-Satchell (RS) measure is an efficient volatility measure. This paper proposes quantile RS (QRS) measure to ensure robustness and correct the downward bias of RS measure with an additive term. Moreover scaling factors are provided for different interquantile ranges to ensure unbiasedness....