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time-varying properties of correlations across countries. The home bias has the effect of increasing local influences on …
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We develop an international financial market model in which domestic and foreign residents differ in their beliefs about the information content in public signals. We determine how informational advantages by domestic investors in the interpretation of home public signals impact equity markets....
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Using data from the April 2005 Survey of Consumers, we develop an index of investor sophistication from a set of 14 quiz-like questions. We correlate our measure of sophistication with holdings of international investments, measures of diversification, and holdings of an employer's stock. We...
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Recent academic research predicts that (i) equity mutual funds have a systematically better performance during periods of economic downturn and (ii) investors are willing to pay high fees for funds that provide recession insurance. In this paper, we test these hypotheses using international fund...
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This research adds cokurtosis risk factor as a new factor into Moreno and Rodriguez (2009) five-factor model to be six-factor model to evaluate the equity mutual fund performance both unconditionally and conditionally, and between up and down market of three selected countries in Asia - China,...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of US mutual funds that invest primarily in emerging market equities and bonds. Design/methodology/approach - The study adopts the Morningstar classification of mutual funds and uses the Lipper US Mutual Fund Database through...
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We study the effect of the home bias on international asset pricing by extending the core-satellite approach of active … evidence suggests that the premium is almost negligible even though the home bias is substantial. This result is mainly driven … by the generally high correlation of index returns and the distribution of the relative level of the home bias across …
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