Generalizing Cooper-Kaplanis (1994), we estimate implied costs that reconcile international portfolios with InCAPM predictions. Costs depend on home- and host-country characteristics and on interactions; we estimate risk tolerance rather than pre-specifying it; and we control for currency risk,...

In this paper we reconsider the estimated deadweight costs for the emerging countries implied by the mean-variance portfolio model developed by Cooper and Kaplanis (1994) and general- ized by Sercu and Vanp¶ee (2007). We show both theoretically and empirically that estimated implicit investment...

While intuition suggests that governance and transparency at the corporate level are primordial for a country's international appeal, foreign portfolio investors appear to care first and foremost about transparency, predictability and honesty at the government level. This is, at least, what our...

We reconsider the costs to international equity investments implied by standard portfolio theory (Cooper and Kaplanis, 1994; Sercu and Vanpée, 2008). Estimated costs are mostly driven by risk estimates, not by asset holdings. For OECD markets, risks are fairly stable and relatively easy to...

In this article, we explore tentatively and formally the differences between bond and equity home and foreign bias based on a large data set including developed and emerging markets for the period 2001 to 2010. We show that, unlike for equities, the international demand for bonds is mainly...

In this paper we explore tentatively and formally the differences between bond and equity home bias and foreign bias based on one large scale dataset including developed and emerging markets for the period 2001 to 2010. We set the stage by tentatively and formally linking the diversion of bond...

Fernandez (2004b) argues that the present value effect of the tax saving on debt cannot be calculated as simply the present value of the tax shields associated with interest. This contradicts standard results in the literature. It implies that, even though the capital market is complete,...

This paper derives tax-adjusted discount rate formulas with a constant proportion leverage policy, investor taxes, and risky debt. The result depends on an assumption about the treatment of tax losses in default. We identify the assumption that justifies the textbook approach of discounting...