Portfolio selection has been in the focus of financial research for at least thirty years. With a hand-collected data set containing information about the portfolio structure of private and institutional investors our paper gives a brief literature review and sheds light on the home bias effect...

Investors who only invest in their domestic market are typically referred to as being home-biased. We refer to firm-level internationalization and call into question whether investing in domestic stock indices actually leads to home bias. We use three measures of firm-level internationalization...

Investors who only invest in their domestic market are typically referred to as being home-biased. We refer to firm-level internationalization and call into question whether investing in domestic stock indices actually leads to home bias. We use three measures of firm-level internationalization...