Despite the officially stated goal of economic diversification and the billions of petrodollars in government expenditure, Azerbaijan has made slow progress achieving non-oil growth and remains heavily dependent on oil revenues. Why have Azerbaijan's efforts to reduce dependence on energy export...

The present study examines the link between diversification strategies and earnings management for firms operating in manufacturing sector. Diversification strategies include expansion across market (international diversification) and product segments (product diversification). The sample...

We posit that OECD buyers are in a continuous search for best quality suppliers from developing countries. We build a simple model of adverse selection and quality screening which captures this feature. The model predicts that diversification happens by “bouts”, or temporary episodes, during...

China's stock market has grown rapidly since its introduction in 1991 and it has become one of the world's leading stock markets. This study is concerned with the dependence structures that exist between the Chinese stock market and other major stock markets including those in the US, UK, Japan,...

Recent studies document the diminishing benefits from international diversification, especially for large-cap stocks and in developed markets. This paper evaluates the potential diversification benefits of holding cross-listed stocks from a liquidity risk perspective. By examining the dependence...

The traditional asset allocation to equities and bonds is characterized by high volatility and lacks sufficient diversification, particularly during periods of distress. The meltdown of 2001-2002, in which markets around the world tumbled together, amply demonstrated this fact. As a consequence,...

We test whether the diversification of marginal investor affects the underlying firm's cost of equity. We use institutional investor holdings data to identify the marginal investor. Compared with individual investors, institutional investors are more likely to be the marginal investor, given...

Using alternative measures of return correlations, we show that neither industry nor country correlations exhibit an ever-increasing trend. Instead, correlations jump during recessions with a tendency to revert in stable periods. This keeps international diversification still important despite...

Using a large sample of stocks from 48 developed and emerging markets, we show that the benefits of diversification persist during the global financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, and other hard times, demonstrating their countercyclicality. This result suggests that the benefits of...