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Coskewness

A higher-moment risk signal that studies how a stock behaves when large market moves and skewness stress appear.

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12-0 Coskewness

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Definition

Coskewness measures each stock's covariance with squared market returns over a trailing estimation window. That construction emphasizes periods when aggregate market moves become especially large and asks whether the stock performs poorly in those crash-prone or high-volatility states.

The economic idea comes from higher-moment asset pricing: stocks that are especially unattractive in skewness-stressed market states should command different expected returns than stocks with more favorable crash-state behavior.

Inside the finance research stack, the representative implementation sorts the Russell 1000 cross-section on coskewness and compares the low-coskewness names against the high-coskewness names in a market-neutral spread.

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