stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and that this drop in …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …

This paper investigates if familiarity induced by ambiguity aversion can help explaining the local bias phenomenon … returns) between local and remote stocks. Our results prove robust to a number of alternative explanations of local bias … companies into excess returns on their local stockholdings. We conclude that individual investors' local bias is induced by …

-driven. We conclude that individual investors' local bias is induced by ambiguity aversion in the portfolio selection process …

risk premia. The extent of this bias is substantial as verified by a bootstrap approach. We present an alternative … estimation equation for future expected one-period returns based on current and past implied rates of return that is superior to … simple estimators based on historical returns. The reason for this superiority is a lower variance of estimation results and …