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eliminating) the observed home bias …
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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 …
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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 …
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We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...
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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 …
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observed home bias …
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This is the first empirical paper investigating a comprehensive sample of listed (i.e. publicly traded) private equity companies, covering 287 companies in the time period 1986 to 2003. After imposing liquidity constraints, and after correcting for non-surviving vehicles, we get a sample of 114...
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