We examine how mutual funds from 26 developed and developing countries allocate their investment between domestic and foreign equity markets and what factors determine their asset allocations worldwide. We find robust evidence that these funds, in aggregate, allocate a disproportionately larger...

This paper examines an asset pricing model in which the Sharpe-Lintner capital asset pricing model and the zero-beta capital asset pricing model are special cases. The model allows the ratio of expected market risk premium to market variance, the conditional expected excess returns, and the...