This paper deals with the country allocation provides benefits over industry allocation in a sample of European country and industry indexes.

This paper anwers the question if the euro and accompanying measures of financial integration had a discernable impact on the degree of diversification of European investors?

This study examines how the effect of uncertainty on capital investment varies between focused firms and conglomerate segments. One advantage of conglomeration is that it gives segments access to the conglomerate's internal capital market, making them less likely to be financially constrained....