This paper evaluates the effect of market integration on prices and welfare, in a model where two Lucas trees grow in separate regions with similar investors. We find equilibrium asset price dynamics and welfare both in segmentation, when each region holds its own asset and consumes its...

Is asset pricing segmented or integrated in frontier equity markets? To answer this question, we examine the returns on more than 4,500 stocks from 22 frontier countries for the years 1997–2018. We evaluate the performance of a few major asset pricing models. We document strong value and...

I study the degree of market integration between U.S. corporate bonds and stocks of their issuers. I document that trading costs and short-selling constraints, which are often imposed on market participants, regularize optimal Sharpe ratio portfolios. These novel trading frictions are consistent...

This paper examines whether Asian emerging stock markets (India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand) have become integrated into world capital markets since their official liberalization dates by estimating and testing a dynamic integrated international capital asset pricing...

We review the international finance literature to assess the extent to which international factors affect financial asset demands and prices. International asset-pricing models with mean-variance investors predict that an asset's risk premium depends on its covariance with the world market...