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comprehensive estimate of foreign investors' U.S. dollar (USD) security holdings and currency hedging practices. We document four … raised their USD hedge ratio by an average of 15 percentage points, despite higher hedging costs implied by large and … persistent deviations from covered interest-rate parity. The total FX hedging demand from these sector reached $2 trillion in …
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This paper analysis the global distribution of art collections and collectors' biases with respect to the origin of artworks. Employing a unique dataset we find that the greatest number of private art collections are located in Europe, North America and Asia. There are relatively few collections...
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This study uses international trade data to discern whether fine art is, on average, more an investment or a consumption good. Using a battery of novel measures, the chapter demonstrates that the flows of services embodied by visual artworks most closely resemble consumption services. A stylized...
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We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use causes a substantial increase in stock market...
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