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Is Local Bias a Cross-Border Phenomenon? Evidence from Individual Investors’ International Asset Allocation
Baltzer, Markus - 2014
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and that this drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064735
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Is Local Bias a Cross-Border Phenomenon? Evidence from Individual Investors' International Asset Allocation
Baltzer, Markus - 2016
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors' local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988780
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740268
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Dynamic Asset Allocation Based on Valuation and Momentum Applied to a Global All-Equity Portfolio
White, James - 2020
There has been considerable research into dynamic global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies driven by simple measures of Valuation and Momentum applied to a baseline balanced portfolio of equities and fixed income (see Blitz and van Vliet 2008, Wang and Kochard 2011, Gnedenko and Yelnik...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838940
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Wealth Dynamics and a Bias Toward Momentum Trading
LeBaron, Blake - 2012
Evolutionary metaphors have been prominent in both economics and finance. They are often used as basic foundations for rational behavior and efficient markets. Theoretically, a mechanism which selects for rational investors requires many caveats, and is far from generic. This paper tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114606
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The Active World of Passive Investing
Easley, David - 2020
We investigate the new reality of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We show that many ETFs are active investments in form (designed to generate alpha) or function (serve as building blocks of active portfolios). The median ETF has an Activeness Index of 93.1%. Active-in-form ETFs have positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851764
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The color of government money : do investors differently value the investment of sovereign wealth funds?
Urban, Dariusz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 13 (2017) 1, pp. 25-34
The article aims at pointing out the differences in market reactions regarding the announcement of an investment of selected Sovereign Wealth Funds in companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The research sample consists of 796 market transactions made by four selected Sovereign Wealth...
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Short Term Momentum and Contrarian Profits on the Bucharest Stock Exchange Before and During the Global Crisis
Stefanescu, Razvan - 2012
This paper explores the opportunities of momentum and contrarian profits on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during quiet and turbulent times. In our investigation we employ daily values of the main indexes from the Bucharest Stock Exchange for two periods of time. During the first period, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100305
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Currency bias of sovereign wealth fund investments
Gim, Hui ho; Kwon, Sanguk; Seol, Youn - In: The Korean economic review 38 (2022) 3, pp. 415-443
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285511
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Crowded Trades, Short Covering, and Momentum Crashes
Yan, Philip - 2014
Despite momentum's strong historical performance, its returns have large negative skewness and occasionally experiences persistent strings of sharp negative returns, referred as "momentum crashes" in the recent literature. I argue that momentum crashes are due to crowded trades which push prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057742