The paper develops measures of home bias for 46 countries over the period 2001 to 2011 by employing various models: International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM), Mean-Variance, Minimum-Variance, Bayes-Stein, Bayesian and Multi-Prior. ICAPM country portfolio weights are computed relative to...

The paper employs International Capital Asset Pricing (ICAPM), Mean-variance, Global mini- mum variance, Bayes–Stein, Bayesian and Multi-prior models to develop foreign equity bias measures for 1414 Australian domiciled mutual funds, which invest in 41 countries worldwide. The Bayesian foreign...

Using panel data from 23 developed countries over the 2001-2011 period and employing the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond dynamic panel estimation technique, we show that the source country capital gains tax has a negative and statistically significant impact on foreign portfolio equity holdings. On...

We examine prominent market anomalies and evaluate the efficacy of alternative asset pricing models under different financial integration settings. A financial integration index is developed for classifying 25 sample markets into high-, medium- and low integration groups. Size is found to be the...