This paper examines whether foreign country consumer sentiment influences the pricing of closed-end country funds. It links the literature on investor sentiment and stock returns to the literature on sentiment and closed-end fund pricing. Using foreign country consumer sentiment indices, we...

We examine the effect of time-varying investment barriers on the pricing of UK closed-end country funds. We find that our direct measure of capital market segmentation is significantly negatively related to both country fund stock return and Net Asset Value (NAV) return of the fund, but there is...