A coskewnesss shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables
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- Kris Boudt (UGent) , Dries Cornilly and Tim Verdonck
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- Abstract
- Decision-making in finance often requires an accurate estimate of the coskewness matrix to optimize the allocation to random variables with asymmetric distributions. The classical sample estimator of the coskewness matrix performs poorly for small sample sizes. A solution is to use shrinkage estimators, defined as the convex combination between the sample coskewness matrix and a target matrix. We propose unbiased consistent estimators for the MSE loss function and include the possibility of having multiple target matrices. In a portfolio application, we find that the proposed shrinkage coskewness estimators are useful in mean–variance–skewness efficient portfolio allocation of funds of hedge funds.
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- Economics and Econometrics, Finance, coskewness, MSE, multiple targets, portfolio optimization, shrinkage, PORTFOLIO SELECTION, HIGHER-ORDER, ALLOCATION, PREFERENCE, MOMENTS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8601076
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- Boudt, Kris, et al. “A Coskewnesss Shrinkage Approach for Estimating the Skewness of Linear Combinations of Random Variables.” JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1–23, doi:10.1093/jjfinec/nby022.
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- Boudt, K., Cornilly, D., & Verdonck, T. (2020). A coskewnesss shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS, 18(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nby022
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- Boudt, Kris, Dries Cornilly, and Tim Verdonck. 2020. “A Coskewnesss Shrinkage Approach for Estimating the Skewness of Linear Combinations of Random Variables.” JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS 18 (1): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nby022.
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- Boudt, Kris, Dries Cornilly, and Tim Verdonck. 2020. “A Coskewnesss Shrinkage Approach for Estimating the Skewness of Linear Combinations of Random Variables.” JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS 18 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1093/jjfinec/nby022.
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- 1.Boudt K, Cornilly D, Verdonck T. A coskewnesss shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS. 2020;18(1):1–23.
- IEEE
- [1]K. Boudt, D. Cornilly, and T. Verdonck, “A coskewnesss shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables,” JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1–23, 2020.
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author = {{Boudt, Kris and Cornilly, Dries and Verdonck, Tim}},
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journal = {{JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS}},
keywords = {{Economics and Econometrics,Finance,coskewness,MSE,multiple targets,portfolio optimization,shrinkage,PORTFOLIO SELECTION,HIGHER-ORDER,ALLOCATION,PREFERENCE,MOMENTS}},
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title = {{A coskewnesss shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nby022}},
volume = {{18}},
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