Evidence of the impact of foreign equity investment flows on the global linkages of the Asian emerging equity markets is provided. Findings confirm that there is a general trend towards greater integration and this process appears to be influenced by the increasing volumes of foreign equity...

This paper examines the influence of foreign institutional investments in explaining the short and long run relationship of the Indian equity market with the global equity markets. Using daily return series and equity portfolio investments made by foreign institutional investors, we find that...

We examine whether greater investor protection leads to greater portfolio investments by utilizing different forms of investor protection measures and bilateral foreign equity portfolio investment data across 37 developed and developing markets. After controlling for a host of confounding...

The paper examines the influence of investor protection on international equity portfolio investments. Using bilateral portfolio holdings data for 36 countries for 2001–2006, the study demonstrates that the investor protection measures are important determinants of foreign equity portfolio...