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

Distinguishing two components of the preference for geographical proximity – the domestic country bias assessing … investors' holdings within the domestic market, and the foreign country bias assessing investors' bilateral holdings within a … report several positive country bias ratios suggesting that the source country's investors overweigh the destination market …

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

bias, sheds light on a new information channel for international investment decisions, and contributes to the debate on …

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 …

I provide an analysis of the home bias in international equity investments using data for the year-end 2006 …. Distinguishing two components of the local equity preference – the “domestic country bias” indicating whether local investors … overinvest the domestic market, and the “foreign country bias” indicating whether investors overinvest or underinvest a …

In this paper, I explore the determinants of foreign bias in international portfolio investment focusing on a … uncertainty avoidance helps to explain foreign bias and that it has an amplifying effect on unfamiliarity and should be accounted …

100% for the largest domestic industries. While this foreign industry bias partly reflects familiarity-based motives, a … learning motive contributing to the bias. This suggests that differences in industry structures across domestic stock markets …