TY - BOOK AU - AU - Sorasart Sukcharoensin and Pariyada Sukcharoensin ED - ED - ED - DLSU Business & Economic Review. 27:2 (January 2018). pp.51-60 ED - SN - 2 PY - 0000///46 CY - PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE;OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE KW - ASEAN-5 KW - sears;STOCK MARKET0 N1 - Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between ownership structure and the skewness in the stock return distribution among ASEAN-5 equity markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand during 2007-2015. This study adds to the existing literatures that ownership structure can explain skewness of the stock returns. The empirical results reveal that stock returns in ASEAN-5 markets present asymmetric distribution. Further, by employing firm-level data, the results show that ownership structure, cumulative daily stock returns, firm size, and market-to-book ratio significantly affect future skewness of the stock returns; 5 ER -