In this paper we first proposed a way of measuring home bias based on portfolio holdings of investors compared with global market weights that would hold under the ICAPM. We inferred the costs to cross-border investment and compared them to actual costs and restrictions, thus identifying the...

We investigate the relative ability of two measures of the market implied cost of capital to predict aggregate equity market returns. One is Aggregate ICC, which is a weighted average of individual firms' ICC's. The other is ICC calculated using index information (Index ICC). Index ICC predicts...