Foreign diversification has a long history in financial economics. In this paper, we re-examine this issue with foreign companies that are listed on US exchanges, combining features of three different literatures. One literature suggests that domestic portfolios including cross-listed stocks can...

We present a model in which issuers of structured bonds choose coarse and opaque ratings to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social value of...

We examine the relationships between credit default swap (CDS) premiums and bond yield spreads for nine emerging market sovereign borrowers. We find that these two measures of credit risk deviate considerably in the short run, due to factors such as liquidity and contract specifications, but we...

We examine the relation between transparency, stock market liquidity, and valuation for a global sample of firms. Following the prior literature, we argue that transaction costs will be higher and investors will be less willing to transact if they perceive significant issues with respect to...

We study the dynamics of gains from sectoral versus geographic diversification and relate economic sources to changes in those gains. We estimate conditional correlations between returns on the U.S. equity market and 16 equity markets and 10 local industries from other OECD countries and find...

The paper investigates, using a threshold autoregression model, the nature of nonlinear adjustments in real exchange rates (RERs) arising from the presence of transaction costs and uncertainty, and their implications for the testing of unit roots. Using monthly data for the U.S. vis-a-vis 19...