This paper deals with the country allocation provides benefits over industry allocation in a sample of European country and industry indexes.

These research addressess whether geographic diserfication provides benefits over industry diversification in a sample of European country and industry indexes.The methodology allows performance comparison with short-slling constraints, upper and lower bounds, and many bechmarks. In the absence...

We analyze the interlinkages between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreignportfolio investment (FPI) between Germany and the major economies. First, we show thatTobin’s q helps explaining the variation of the growth rate of the stock of FDI. Second, weshow that foreign and the home stock...