@article{Implications:1446, recid = {1446}, author = {Chabi-Yo, Fousseni and Leisen, Dietmar and Renault, Eric}, title = {Implications of Asymmetry Risk for Portfolio Analysis and Asset Pricing}, publisher = {Bank of Canada}, address = {2007}, pages = {1 online resource (iii, 50 pages)}, abstract = {Asymmetric shocks are common in markets; securities' payoffs are not normally distributed and exhibit skewness. This paper studies the portfolio holdings of heterogeneous agents with preferences over mean, variance and skewness, and derives equilibrium prices. A three funds separation theorem holds, adding a skewness portfolio to the market portfolio; the pricing kernel depends linearly only on the market return and its squared value. Our analysis extends Harvey and Siddique's (2000) conditional mean-variance-skewness asset pricing model to non-vanishing risk-neutral market variance. The empirical relevance of this extension is documented in the context of the asymmetric GARCH-in-mean model of Bekaert and Liu (2004).}, url = {http://www.oar-rao.bank-banque-canada.ca/record/1446}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.34989/swp-2007-47}, }