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Distinguishing two components of the preference for geographical proximity – the domestic country bias assessing … investors' holdings within the domestic market, and the foreign country bias assessing investors' bilateral holdings within a … report several positive country bias ratios suggesting that the source country's investors overweigh the destination market …
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Local stock markets adjust sluggishly to changes in local inflation. When the local rate of inflation increases, local investors subsequently earn significantly lower real returns on local stocks, but not on local bonds or foreign stocks. Our results suggest that local stock market investors use...
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The study investigated the impact of sovereign credit ratings on foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows to emerging markets through panel data for seven markets (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Nigeria, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates) during the period from 2015 to 2019 on a...
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Standard open economy macro models with unemployment predict a contractionary short-run effect of international capital inflows. Empirical evidence, on the other hand, often associates such inflows with short-term booms, and developing country policy makers frequently go out of their way to...
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private sector issuers. This relationship remains robust to potential sample selection bias in debt issuance and the inclusion …
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Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) gained visibility. Despite the regulation demands by host states, this new sovereign role in international markets can work as an important tool for developing countries. By cushioning imbalance periods and insulating from...
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This study investigated the directional linkages among net foreign portfolio investment volatility, financial deepening and capital market performance in low-income Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries employing a dynamic panel vector error correction model (P-VECM) on...
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This study investigates the linkage between portfolio investment and economic growth in 18 developed and 27 developing countries. Furthermore, it compares and analyzes interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing assets and the economic development level. The results of our analysis show that...
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This article presents various techniques for downside risk control of an emerging markets equity index or long only fund. We evaluate different risk adjusted strategies applied to dynamic asset allocation between an emerging markets equity index and cash and at a later stage between an emerging...
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The recent financial crisis and the corresponding market crash have had a tremendous impact on investors with significant exposures to equity markets but without appropriate risk control tools. Indeed, within just a few weeks a number of pension funds, university endowments, and mutual funds...
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