This research presents evidence for the existence of differences in asset beta risk in the liquidity cross-section of assets due to correlated trading. It is argued that due to differences in liquidity or cost, most trading activity is concentrated on the subset of liquid assets. In the presence...

We extend the ex-ante mean-variance (SVIX) models of Martin (2017) and Martin-Wagner (2019) to a mean-variance-asymmetry (AVIX) framework for incorporating higher-moment and co-moment risk in asset pricing. AVIX is a risk-neutral measure of the left-tail asymmetries in return that corrects the...