Country risk assessment is central to the international investment, which recently has increasingly focused on emerging markets (EM). In this paper we proxy for country risk in EM by using time-varying beta. We extend existing literature by applying a dynamic conditional correlation GARCH model....

Recently there have been a number of differing findings in the empirical evidence on fund performance. In this paper we suggest this difference could be explained by the treatment of the regression assumptions. The crucial question in this paper for investors is whether the presence of...

In this paper we examine whether the UK closed-end country fund premium is related to the illiquidity of the UK fund or the illiquidity of the country in which the fund invests. We also consider whether emerging market country funds behave differently in terms of their premium and illiquidity to...