Our study examines the investment determinants of worldwide mutual funds from the perspective of economic geography. In particular, we investigate the preference of “impatient” mutual funds for specific countries. By analyzing a sample of 22,996 worldwide mutual funds over the period...

The transformations of the finance sector linked to the emergence of new actors (pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds…) and its globalization have changed the rules of corporate governance and the competitive context of industrial companies. The theme of the influence between finance and...

The article investigates the geography of finance via an analysis of the investment behavior of large international equity investors. The main argument is based on the importance of financial markets and capital flows and on the central role played in them by institutional investors, the key...