Integrated capital markets facilitate risk sharing across countries. Lower home bias in financial investments is an … indicator of risk sharing. We highlight that existing indicators of equity home bias in the literature suffer from incomplete … coverage because they consider only listed equities. We also consider unlisted equites and show that equity home bias is much …

. Such return driven behavior of foreign investors is especially pronounced in emerging bond markets. Meanwhile, home bias is …

bias, and country concentration. The paper finds that, if a country has a large amount of bilateral portfolio exposure in … financial spillovers; if a country has a stronger home bias, the country could have less spillovers from foreign financial …

time-varying properties of correlations across countries. The home bias has the effect of increasing local influences on …

deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance … models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to endogenous information acquisition bolstered by investors' human capital. We …

countries, we investigate empirically if there is systematic evidence for a home bias in sovereign ratings. Specifically, we use … explained by the fundamentals of rated countries, our results provide empirical support for the existence of a home bias in … sovereign ratings. We find that the bias becomes more accentuated following the onset of the Global Financial Crisis and appears …

countries, we investigate empirically if there is systematic evidence for a home bias in sovereign ratings. Specifically, we use … explained by the fundamentals of rated countries, our results provide empirical support for the existence of a home bias in … sovereign ratings. We find that the bias becomes more accentuated following the onset of the Global Financial Crisis and appears …