The home bias is observed in the composition of portfolios of different classes of financial assets. The literature offers conflicting arguments about the rationality of this behavior in the case of the portfolios invested in short-term securities, commonly known as currency deposits. In the...

The financial account of the balance of payments aggregates a set of heterogeneous flows, with marked differences in terms of purpose, risk, maturity and liquidity. With this perspective, the paper analyzes the factors that explain comparatively extreme events occurred in the flows of the three...

The objective of this is study is to assert the role of domestic financial system as mitigating of sudden stops episodes and driver of capital flows in a group of 14 emerging economies in the period of 1999-2013, especially in face of unfavorable external environment such as high international...

The balance of payments' financial account aggregates a very heterogeneous set of capital flows. Among other features, these investments differ in terms of maturity, risk, liquidity and receptor. From this viewpoint, this paper analyzes comparatively the behavior of the main components of the...

The paper investigates the allocative efficiency of the investment policy of pension funds established within the Welfare and Social Security System of the Brazilian federal entities. For that, it develops a model of strategic asset allocation for a pension fund whose resources fund a...

The canonical model of financial decision argues that the wealth allocation between the risk free asset and the tangent portfolio of risky assets depends only on the degree of risk aversion of the investor. However, recent theoretical advances support the influence of a broader set of...