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Is It Time To Reconsider The Semivariance Again? A Note, Ladd Kochman
Is It Time To Reconsider The Semivariance Again? A Note, Ladd Kochman
Ladd Kochman
Building on the assumption that stock returns are less-than-symmetric, the semivariances (SV) are computed for 14 domestic and foreign stock indices as well as their respective arithmetic means (AM) and standard deviations (SD) and hypotheses that the correlation between SVs and AMs will be both positive and greater than the correlation between SDs and AMs.