This paper uses stock price synchronicity to explain the cross-sectional variation in return asymmetries during the period in Australia between 2006 and 2009. We show that returns are more positively skewed for firms that have high stock price synchronicity. We argue that firms with high stock...

This paper explores a way to construct a new family of univariate probability distributions where the parameters of the distribution capture the dependence between the variable of interest and the continuous latent state variable (the regime). The distribution nests two well known families of...