Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

This paper examines the overreaction hypothesis on market indices for three- and five-year investment periods using end-of-month data from 49 Morgan Stanley Capital International indices from December 1970 to December 2018. The returns were computed as holding-period returns, instead of...