SKEWNESS OF RETURN DISTRIBUTION AND COEFFICIENT OF RISK PREMIUM

The skewness of the return distribution is one of the important features of the security price.In this paper,the authors try to explore the relationship between the skewness and the coefficient ofrisk premium.The coefficient of the risk premium is estimated by a GARCH-M model,and the robustmeasurement of skewness is calculated by Groeneveld-Meeden method.The empirical evidences forthe composite indexes from 33 securities markets in the world indicate that the risk compensationrequirement in the market where the return distribution is positively skewed is virtually zero,andthe risk compensation requirement is positive in a significant level in the market where the returndistribution is negative skewed.Moreover,the skewness is negatively correlated with the coefficient ofthe risk premium.