The aim of this paper is to investigate the behavior of international equity returns and correlations using the discrete-time Markov-switching model and the impact of this behavior on international portfolio choices. We take the perspective of a US-based global investor who considers investment...

The aim of this paper is to develop an integrated multiple criteria decision making approach combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the goal programming (GP) model to study the impact of a mixture of investment barriers on international portfolio selection, and therefore the home...

The purpose of this paper is to study the portfolio choice problem in the presence of a mixture of barriers to international investment from the view point of G-7 investors. We suggest a methodology based on a combination of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the weighted goal programming...

This paper investigates the potential portfolio diversification benefits through introducing commodities to international Islamic stock portfolios through the period 2016-2020. Different types of asset investment strategies such as equally weighted portfolios (1/N), risk-parity, reward-to-risk...