In a segmented international capital market, illiquidity in the market in which the shares of a country fund are traded affects only the share price of the fund (S), while illiquidity in the market in which the underlying assets are traded affects only the fund net asset value (NAV). In an...

In a simple model of segmented markets and exogenous liquidity shock, the closed-end country fund premium is negatively affected by the illiquidity in the host market where shares of the country fund are traded and positively affected by the illiquidity in the home market where the underlying...

Relative purchasing power parity (PPP) holds for pure price inflations, which affect prices of all goods and services by the same proportion, while leaving relative prices unchanged. Pure price inflations also affect nominal returns of all traded financial assets by exactly the same amount....

A simple framework is developed to analyze the important role of the bond market for the welfare of a long horizon small investor when both inflation and the real interest rate are stochastic. Closed form solutions for investor utility in different settings are used to show that the welfare loss...

The optimal portfolio strategy is developed for an investor who has detected an asset pricing anomaly but is not certain that the anomaly is genuine rather than merely apparent. The analysis takes account of the fact that the parameters of both the underlying asset pricing model and the...

Relations between foreign exchange risk premia, exchange rate volatility, and the volatilities of the pricing kernels for the underlying currencies, are derived under the assumption of integrated capital markets. As predicted, the volatility of exchange rates is significantly associated with the...