Geographic distance plays an important role in many disciplines like economic geography, trade or demography. In international economics and finance, it is primarily used as a substitute of transaction costs in gravity equations of bilateral trade in goods and assets. This paper is a synthesis...

A new technique is devised to mitigate the errors-in-variables bias in linear regression. The procedure mimics a 2-stage least squares procedure where an auxiliary regression which generates a better behaved predictor variable is derived. The generated variable is then used as a substitute for...

This paper examines foreign investors' equity-level transactions in an emerging stock market, the Istanbul Stock Exchange, for the period 1997–2008 to derive insights into the debate on information asymmetries between domestic and foreign investors and the home bias puzzle. The analysis...

Distinguishing two components of the preference for geographical proximity – the domestic country bias assessing investors' holdings within the domestic market, and the foreign country bias assessing investors' bilateral holdings within a particular host, I document a number of stylized facts...

We propose a new method to assess the risk diversification potential of a given investment set, using only the information content of the covariance matrix of returns. Namely, we extend Rudin and Morgan's (2006) work to numerically solve for the ‘Maximum Diversification Index' by means of a...

I examine whether the effect of physical distance on the geography of international portfolio investments undergoes an informational or a cultural channel. Using two measures to disentangle the effects of the physical distance, namely the cultural distance proposed by Kogut and Singh (1988), and...