This study examines the daily, weekly, and monthly behavior of volatility in emerging stock markets in local currency and in dollar-adjusted returns. An iterated cumulative sums of squares methodology is used to identify the points and magnitude of shocks/sudden changes in the unconditional...

Despite the disappearance of formal barriers to international investment across countries, we find that the average home bias of US investors towards the 46 countries with the largest equity markets did not fall from 1994 to 2004 when countries are equally weighted but fell when countries are...