In this paper we first proposed a way of measuring home bias based on portfolio holdings of investors compared with global market weights that would hold under the ICAPM. We inferred the costs to cross-border investment and compared them to actual costs and restrictions, thus identifying the...

Evidence suggests that international capital markets are neither fully integrated nor completely segmented. There is, however, currently no general method available for computing the required return on corporate investments with such capital markets. This paper uses a model of partially...

Using a large sample of cross-border mergers we measure the effect of a change in location on systematic risk. When a target firm's location moves a large part of its systematic risk switches from being related to its home equity market to that of the acquirer. On average the change in betas is...