We propose an international asset pricing model in a two-country framework where trading in the foreign market encounters barriers to portfolio flows and short-sale constraints. Under ownership restrictions, free assets are priced with a global risk premium whereas the restricted assets command...

We propose an international asset pricing model in a two-country framework where trading in the foreign market encounters barriers to portfolio flows and short-sale constraints. Under ownership restrictions, free assets are priced with a global risk premium whereas the restricted assets command...

Market liberalization may not result in global pricing or full market integration if implicit barriers are important. We use the conditional version of the Errunza and Losq (1985) model to estimate pricing of investable indices for 22 emerging markets and test this proposition. Our results show...

International equity markets are characterized by nonlinear dependence and asymmetries. We propose a new dynamic asymmetric copula model to capture long-run and short-run dependence, multivariate nonnormality, and asymmetries in large cross-sections. We find that copula correlations have...

We examine the role of emerging markets in providing currency diversification benefits. We use global sectoral portfolios for developed and emerging markets. Our empirical tests based on a conditional international asset pricing model show that on average the prices of currency risks are very...

In countries with secure property rights, corporate transparency improves investment efficiency and increases growth by alleviating information asymmetry. However, in countries with insecure property rights, greater transparency can increase the risk of government expropriation. Therefore, some...

This paper investigates the valuation effects of corporate international diversification by examining cross-border mergers and acquisitions of U.S. acquirers over the period 1990-1999. We find that, on average, acquisitions of quot;fairly valuedquot; foreign business units do not lead to value...

We develop a three-moment international asset-pricing model (TM-IAPM) that prices coskewness and embeds the standard IAPMs as special cases. We use the model to investigate the time-series behavior of market, size, value, and momentum premiums in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom...

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...