We study how investor's persistent preference to invest more in the home market — “home bias” — is affecting investor's efforts to mitigate risks associated with climate change. When investors have a tendency to tilt their portfolio towards domestic assets, the carbon intensity in the...

We investigate the extent to which investors exhibit carbon home bias: disproportionate investment in carbon-intensive firms from the home market. We utilize a comprehensive stock-level holdings dataset of European investors to understand the relationship between carbon home bias, divestment and...

Verschiebung der Wirtschaftspotenziale von der BRIC-Region in die Gruppe der Neuen Emerging Markets -- Investitionskriterien für die Kapitalmärkte der Neuen Emerging Markets -- Auswahl der chancenreichsten Neuen Emerging Markets (empirischer Teil) -- Zusammenfassung.

Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...