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Recent studies have documented the importance of asymmetry and tail-fatness of returns on portfolio-choice, asset-pricing, value-at-risk and option-valuation models. This article explores the nature of skewness and elongation in daily Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) return distributions using g, h...

When correcting for autocorrelation, most econometrics texts suggest using a quasi-differencing procedure. A number of issues arise. First, it is found that popular two-step procedures do not sufficiently correct for autocorrelation in certain instances. Second, while it is true that most...