Does Familiarity Breed Investment? An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Equity Holdings
Preprint
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Traditional financial diversification theory states that one should hold a portfolio with a well diversified mix of assets, both nationally and internationally.Keywords
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