We show that decreasing absolute prudence implies kurtosis aversion. The ``proof''' of this relation is usually based on the identification of kurtosis with the fourth centered moment of the return distribution and a Taylor approximation of the utility function. A more sound analysis is...

We show that decreasing absolute prudence implies kurtosis aversion. The ``proof''' of this relation is usually based on the identification of kurtosis with the fourth centered moment of the return distribution and a Taylor approximation of the utility function. A more sound analysis is...

Azzalini's skew-normal distribution is an attractive tool for modeling the skewness observed in many economic and financial variables. Formulas for the odd moments of the skew-normal distribution have been given by Henze (1986) and, more recently, Martinez et al. (2008). This note provides a...