Foreign portfolio flows have been blamed for causing instability in emerging markets, especially during financial crises. This study measured the effect of foreign capital flows on volatility and exposure to world market risk in the six largest Latin American stock markets: Argentina, Brazil,...

Studying Foreign flows and the liquidity of six Asian markets we provide evidence of two empirical regularities: On the one hand, foreign trade has a negative but transitory impact on the overall liquidity of the market on a daily basis. This finding is shown consistent with two hypotheses: that...