This paper defines risk-on risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as the variation in global investor risk aversion. Our high-frequency RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility,...

An overview of the investments made by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), defined as the region encompassing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. The analysis considers all investments made by the funds as of the end of July...

An inquiry into the potential political risks associated with the investment activity of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It starts with an analysis of the importance of the GCC SWFs in terms of their global investments. It then analyzes the main directions of these investments,...

This chapter encapsulates the most recent findings on sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment activity globally. The key research proposals addressed herein relate to the position of global SWFs among conventional and alternative asset managers, SWF allocation strategies, their recent investment...

This document discusses the emergence and evolution of state-sponsored investment vehicles, commonly known as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), with attention paid to the consequences of establishing such an entity in Zimbabwe. While some of what is to be discussed is prescriptive in nature, the...

Germany is world champion in exporting capital ("Exportweltmeister"). No other country invests larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance, as we show in this paper. We study the returns on German foreign...

In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital ("Exportweltmeister"). No other country invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance. To show this, we...

In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital (“Exportweltmeister”). No other country invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance. To show this, we...

This study investigates the determinants of foreign institutional investors' Investment in Indian by finding the relationship between the foreign institutional investment and financial and real economy variables namely, return on NIFTY, volume of NSE, index of industrial production, wholesale...

In this paper the author empirically examines whether the influence of bilateral investment treaties' political risk guarantees extends to other types of capital flows - FDI, private debt, public debt and portfolio equity. The paper uses panel data on middle and low income countries during the...