The paper relates cumulative prospect theory to the moments of returns distributions, e.g. skewness and kurtosis … related to the skewness. However, the relation is negative when probability weighing is set aside. This shows that cumulative … prospect theory investors display a preference for skewness through the probability weighting function. Furthermore, the …

following parameters are varied: the riskless return, the market standard deviation, the market stock premium, and the skewness … and the kurtosis of the risky return. Both the high extremes and the low extremes are considered. With these figures, the …