This paper investigates the impact of domestic investor protection on equity cross-border investment. We bring to light a lower sensitivity of foreign investment to destination countries' corporate governance for those investors enjoying a higher degree of investor protection at home. This...

In this paper we studied the impact of the integration of emerging markets in a portfolio composed initially of developed markets. The sample is composed of seven stock indices of developed markets and nine emerging market stock indices. Our main conclusions are the following. First, a study of...

This paper examines the patterns of intraday cojumps between international equity markets as well as their impact on international asset holdings and portfolio diversification benefits. Using intraday index-based data for exchange-traded funds as proxies for international equity markets, we...

This paper investigates the effect of financial education on foreign portfolio investment. We show that higher investor financial education fosters international diversification, and that its role is particularly pronounced where information problems and monitoring costs are likely to be more...

The weak empirical evidence linking diversification and international equity flows calls into question the diversification paradigm at the international level and the analytical framework it implies. Using a novel measure of diversification that includes all the moments of the distribution of...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the behavior of international equity returns and correlations using the discrete-time Markov-switching model and the impact of this behavior on international portfolio choices. We take the perspective of a US-based global investor who considers investment...

This paper examines determinants of domestic (investors overweight their domestic market) and foreign bias (investors over- or underweight foreign markets) in international asset allocation from 26 developed and developing countries. In particular, we document robust evidence that...

In this paper, we examine how the future age structure of the nation helps explaining the current ratio of FPI over FDI in a country's foreign asset stock. Firstly, we present a theoretical foundation of the relation and then we test it empirically. Theoretical foundations are based on the...