Using a simple numeraire currency-independent metric to measure distances between currencies, it is found that for most of the 25 sampled floating currencies, excluding the US dollar and euro, there has been a noticeable decrease in the ratio of a currency’s distance from the euro to its...

Considering that the popular Fama-French-Carhart (FFC) factors are actually long-short stock portfolios, we (i) test if the FFC six country factors are globalized, (ii) compare the pricing performance of the global, country, and local orthogonalized factors, and (iii) study the pricing...

Investors are known to exhibit home (local) bias even when they invest in their domestic markets. Since home bias is symptomatic of market segmentation, the ‘home bias at home' phenomenon raises an important question: How well integrated are domestic financial markets? The answer for this...