In this paper we examine whether the UK closed-end country fund discounts are related to the illiquidity of the UK fund or the illiquidity of the country the fund invests in. We also consider whether emerging market country funds behave differently in terms of their discount and illiquidity to...

We examine the rate of return earned by global funds on equity investment in emerging markets (EMs) particularly the role played by sovereign credit risk. Changes in sovereign credit ratings (upgrades/downgrades) influence excess (over risk free rate) returns earned by foreign investors: lower...

We test the role of funding-constrained investors across developed financial markets. We compile direct measures of the severity of funding frictions, or illiquidity, from deviations of government bond yields from a fitted yield curve. Using these illiquidity measures, we first show that higher...