Bettors love skewness, not risk, at the horse track

被引:175
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Golec, J [1 ]
Tamarkin, M [1 ]
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[1] Clark Univ, Worcester, MA 01610 USA
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10.1086/250007
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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Studies of horse race betting have empirically established a long shot anomaly; that is, low-probability, high-variance bets (long shots) provide low mean returns and high-probability, low-variance bets provide relatively high mean returns. Because betters willingly accept low-return, high-variance bets, researchers conclude that betters are risk lovers. In this study, we show that the data are at least as consistent with risk aversion as they are with risk loving when one explicitly considers the skewness of bet returns. Because the variance and skewness of bet returns are highly correlated, betters may appear to prefer variance when it is skewness that they crave.
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