This paper addresses and resolves the problems caused by microstructure effects when measuring the relative importance of home and U.S. market in the price discovery process of internationally cross listed stocks. In order to avoid large bounds for information shares, previous studies applying...

We analyze the transmission of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 to 415 country-industry equity portfolios. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of contagion. While we find evidence of...

This paper examines how the financial globalization affects international equity mutual funds' portfolio choices in emerging markets. By examining the monthly holdings of 155 international funds, we first show that these funds actively engage in a rebalancing strategy to maintain their risk...

This study examines investor attention connectedness measures prior and during the COVID-19 period. We find that the investor attention spillovers are persistent among global equity markets, and developed markets have a dominant role as shock transmitters. The spillover effect increases...

We document a new channel of exchange rate determination by examining the impact of global equity market shocks on the collective hedging of foreign exchange (FX) risk by large institutional investors (IIs). Using novel daily data on FX forward flows of Israeli IIs, we investigate the causality...

The dependence between asset returns varies. Its strength can become stronger or weaker. Also, its structure can change, for example, when asymmetries related to bull and bear markets become more or less pronounced. To analyze these di erent types of variations, we develop a model that...

Using unique trading data for investor classes from Sri Lanka, this study finds asymmetric investor behavior between buyside and sellside in large trades. Investors are positive feedback traders on the buyside and contrarians on the sellside. Domestic investors exhibit more feedback and...

I extend Yan and Zivot (2007)'s dynamic measure of price discovery based on impulse response functions of structural shocks to a trivariate model with two common trends. To investigate price discovery for 7 Canadian firms cross-border listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange Market (TSX) and the New...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...