In this paper, we find that the upside asymmetry calculated based on a new distribution-based asymmetry measure proposed by Jiang, Wu, Zhou, and Zhu (2020) is negatively related to average future returns in the crosssection of Chinese stock returns. By contrast, when using a conventional...

In this paper, we propose two asymmetry measures for stock returns. Unlike the popular skewness measure, our measures are based on the distribution function of the data rather than just the third central moment. We present empirical evidence that greater upside asymmetries calculated using our...