A new GARCH model with higher moments for stock return predictability

The main purpose of the paper is to propose a new GARCH-SK predictive regression model that accommodates higher order moments (skewness and kurtosis) in testing the null hypothesis of no predictability. Using an extensive and well-known time-series dataset on stock returns and 19 predictors for the United States, we show that our proposed GARCH-SK model outperforms a model without these higher moments. The superior performance of our proposed model holds both statistically and economically and is robust to different data frequencies. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.