This study tests whether investor belief differences affect the cross-sectional variation of risk-neutral skewness, using data on firm-level stock options traded on the CBOE from 2003 to 2006. Using well known proxies for heterogeneous beliefs, we find that stocks with greater belief differences...

This study quantifies the contributions of risk and mispricing to a comprehensive set of anomalies identified in the literature. Overall, risk and mispricing contribute equally to these anomalies; however, there is a wide variation across different categories. Mispricing is solely responsible...