1989
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.1989.tb00340.x
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The Analytics of the Intervaling Effect on Skewness and Kurtosis of Stock Returns

Abstract: This paper analyzes how the skewness and kurtosis of securities' returns are affected by the length of the differencing interval over which returns are measured. Hawawini's previous analysis of this “intervaling effect” on log returns is shown to be incorrect, and the correct effects are derived. While Hawawini only considered log returns, we also derived the intervaling effect on the skewness and kurtosis of “simple” returns. Our results show that the length of differencing interval has very different effects… Show more

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“…Moreover, we find that the parameter sign associated with gamma differs from interval to interval. This finding is consistent with previous empirical evidence on the changing signs of financial returns' skewness, when different sampling intervals are considered (Lau and Wingender, 1989;Hawawini, 1980a).…”
Section: Table 1 About Heresupporting
confidence: 82%
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“…Moreover, we find that the parameter sign associated with gamma differs from interval to interval. This finding is consistent with previous empirical evidence on the changing signs of financial returns' skewness, when different sampling intervals are considered (Lau and Wingender, 1989;Hawawini, 1980a).…”
Section: Table 1 About Heresupporting
confidence: 82%
“…Specifically, the literature suggests that the sign of skewness will also change due to different sampling intervals used (Lau and Wingender, 1989;Hawawini, 1980b). Building on this, we test whether the sign of systematic co-skewness changes from one interval to another.…”
Section: Test Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The statistics in panel (c) are the averages of the statistics for each of the ten possible starting days. Implied coefficients of skewness and of excess kurtosis for the aggregation of k returns are calculated by scaling the non-aggregated coefficients by 1/ √ k and 1/k, based on Lau and Wingender (1989). The correlations in panel (b) are the averages of the correlations based on weekly returns for each day of the week.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lau and Wingender (1989) derive that when k i.i.d. returns are aggregated, the skewness coefficient is scaled by 1/ √ k and the coefficient of excess kurtosis by 1/k.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That is, as the holding interval h increases, e 3 and e 4 decline at a rate of h 1=2 and h 1 respectively. This is the so-called intervalling e¤ect on skewness and kurtosis that were studied by Hawawini (1980) and Lau and Wingender (1989). Before we proceed to derive the required tests, it is worthwhile to consider the following example to illustrate why the higher order relations may not hold.…”
Section: Higher-order Ratio Relationsmentioning
confidence: 99%