This paper presents a rational expectations model of asset prices with rationally inattentive investors that, unlike previous papers, explains both the substantial amount of equity wealth invested domestically and the puzzling time series behavior of the home bias - an initial plateau before...

Few studies have successfully examined the empirical impact of limited information processing on real economic variables. The challenge relies, of course, on the difficulty of measuring an economic agent's degree of attention/inattention paid to different types of information. This paper...