... The authors find that more than half of individual stocks underperform government bonds over the same period in China, which highlights the important role of positive skewness in the distribution of individual stock returns. The high return of a few stocks is the reason why the stock market return is higher...

...Yaojie Zhang; Yu Wei; Benshan Shi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a loan insurance pricing model allowing for the skewness and kurtosis existing in underlying asset returns. Design/methodology/approach Using the theory of Gram-Charlier option, the authors first derive a closed...