This paper introduces a return-based approach to studying a possible home bias of equity funds by estimating their … in a particular country. Our findings reveal that the portfolios of four domiciles show a significant home bias. Moreover …. Finally, a home bias of individual funds is not related to superior performance, but actually results in higher investment …

Integrated capital markets facilitate risk sharing across countries. Lower home bias in financial investments is an … indicator of risk sharing. We highlight that existing indicators of equity home bias in the literature suffer from incomplete … coverage because they consider only listed equities. We also consider unlisted equites and show that equity home bias is much …

. Such return driven behavior of foreign investors is especially pronounced in emerging bond markets. Meanwhile, home bias is …

Distinguishing two components of the preference for geographical proximity – the domestic country bias assessing … investors' holdings within the domestic market, and the foreign country bias assessing investors' bilateral holdings within a … report several positive country bias ratios suggesting that the source country's investors overweigh the destination market …

This paper analyzes determinants of home bias in equity funds based on monthly holdings data using panel and quantile … from January 2003 to December 2016. More than ninety percent of our sample funds show, on average, a home bias. In addition …, the home bias across funds is quite stable over time. Analyzing the determinants of this home bias, our empirical results …

bias, and country concentration. The paper finds that, if a country has a large amount of bilateral portfolio exposure in … financial spillovers; if a country has a stronger home bias, the country could have less spillovers from foreign financial …

time-varying properties of correlations across countries. The home bias has the effect of increasing local influences on …

deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance … models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to endogenous information acquisition bolstered by investors' human capital. We …

bias, sheds light on a new information channel for international investment decisions, and contributes to the debate on …