This book helps readers understand the widely documented distortion in the portfolio choice of individual investors toward proximate firms - the proximity bias phenomenon. First, it recapitulates the fundamentals of modern portfolio theory. It then goes on to describe and demonstrate different...

Using data on direct investments of individual investors from 2000 to 2008, this paper shows that investors are persistent in holding local stocks even though they do not earn abnormal return on local biased investments. This preference might be explained by familiarity hypothesis, hedging needs...

This book helps readers understand the widely documented distortion in the portfolio choice of individual investors toward proximate firms – the proximity bias phenomenon. First, it recapitulates the fundamentals of modern portfolio theory. It then goes on to describe and demonstrate different...

This paper examines the determinants of herding at both stock and individual investor levels and studies the portfolio performance of herd vs. non-herd portfolios using machine learning algorithms. The disposition effect and the attention effect seem to explain herding behavior at the stock...

There exists a large number of research on ownership structure and managerial compensation and their consequences for shareholder value maximization. However, academic research has been less concerned with analysis of explanatory factors for managerial myopia over time, different markets and...

China and India reported highest growth in high-tech exports for the past two decades (World Bank) and hence are increasingly becoming the countries to file for protection of intellectual property. This paper examines whether there is a delay in time to grant of a patent when applied by domestic...

Portfolio pumping is known as an “illegal” trading practice of inflating quarter-end and year-end portfolio returns. Using daily return data on U.S. domestic equity mutual funds we show that ESG funds do engage in portfolio pumping but this trading activity does not generate higher flows. On...